If common sense had been consulted, how many marriages would never have taken place; if uncommon or divine sense, how few marriages such as we witness would ever have taken place!

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field.

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

We never conceive the greatness of our fates.