Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

In the one branch he most needed

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles. One must make one's self a part of it. If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.