No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.

Accuracy is twin brother to honesty, and inaccuracy to dishonesty.

She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.

Would Time but await the close of our favorite follies, we should all be young men, all of us, and until Doom's Day.

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

It loves more readily than it hates.

I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.