Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

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.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.