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.

It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it's the light of the oncoming train.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.

History is clarified experience.

I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.