I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first.

If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.

Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.

Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.