God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.
Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
In order to die, you must first have lived.
Truth is always paradoxical.
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
Whoever can discern truth has received his commission from a higher source than the chiefest justice in the world who can discernonly law. He finds himself constituted judge of the judge. Strange that it should be necessary to state such simple truths!