Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

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.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

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

No star seemed less than what science has taught us that it is.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste