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

Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Hush! Still as death, The tempest holds his breath As from a sudden will; The rain stops short, but from the eaves You see it drop, and hear it from the leaves, All is so bodingly still.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

That pernicious sentiment, "Our country, right or wrong."

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.