If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.