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.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.