We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.

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

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

An interesting fiction... however paradoxical the assertion may appear... addresses our love of truth- not the mere love of facts expressed by true names and dates, but the love of that higher truth, the truth of nature and principals, which is a primitive law of the human mind.

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

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

We can all perceive the difference between ourselves and our inferiors, but when it comes to a question of the difference between us and our superiors we fail to appreciate merits of which we have no proper conceptions.