Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

A Patriot is someone who stands for his country always, and for his government when it is deserved.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.