The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.

Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

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.