Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.