tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.