Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.