Popularity is for dolls.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

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.

Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.