You can't control a young horse unless you control yourself.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over.

Boston has carried the practice of hypocrisy to the n-th degree of refinement, grace, and failure.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.