The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could give no account of their position, but stand for the defence of those interests in which they find themselves.

If we follow the truth, it will bring us out safe at last.

Life is unnecessarily long. Moments of insight, of fine personal relation, a smile, a glance,--what ample borrowers of eternity they are!

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.