Votes should be weighed not counted.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

Weep, for the light is dead.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.