I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

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

It is the fate of all things to ripen, and then to decay.

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.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.