As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.