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.

What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.