A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

Our best thoughts come from others.

If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes as a cheap, dear house.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

If you cannot be free be as free as you can.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.