The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

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.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.