We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy, but in the state, and in the schools, it is indispensable to resist the consolidation ofall men into a few men.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

The only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it.

The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.