The very gnarliest and hardest of hearts has some musical strings in it; but they are tuned differently in every one of us.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Evil springs up, and flowers, and bears no seed, And feeds the green earth with its swift decay, Leaving it richer for the growth of truth.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.