The President proclaims war, and those Senators who dissent are not those who know better, but those who can afford to...Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Every time you wink the stars move.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.