It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

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.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

Most long lives resemble those threads of gossamer, the nearest approach to nothing unmeaningly prolonged, scarce visible pathways of some worm from his cradle to his grave.

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.