Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

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.

The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise.

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.