He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their transmortal El Dorado. Sancho Panza will not quit his chimney-corner, but under promise of imaginary islands to govern.

They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.

I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.