Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
Right reason is stronger than force.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.