A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

The victory's in believing.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.