Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

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

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.

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

Not a change for the better in our human housekeeping has ever taken place that wise and good men have not opposed it-have not prophesied that the world would wake up to find its throat cut in consequence.

Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.