All gods are better than their reputation.

How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.