I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

In the one branch he most needed

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.