He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.
It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.
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.
Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable.
Liberty is a slow fruit.
Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.