Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk.

I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.