One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Men have a singular desire to be good without being good for anything, because, perchance, they think vaguely that so it will be good for them in the end.

Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.

If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.