The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.
Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman's cottage, the King of England could not.