It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

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.