A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

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.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Whoever can endure unmixed delight, whoever can tolerate music and painting and poetry all in one, whoever wishes to be rid of thought and to let the busy anvils of the brain be silent for a time, let him read in the "Faery Queen."

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.