It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

No people ever lived by cursing their fathers, however great a curse their fathers might have been to them.

What is once well done is done forever.

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

The press is, almost without exception, corrupt.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.