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

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity, since the tastes, knowledge, and principles of the majority form the tribunal of appeal.

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

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

There are evils worse than death.

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

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