No generalization is wholly true—not even this one.

Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered.

There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.

Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a mule.