Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

But it warn't no time to be sentimentering.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?

Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.