History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.