The force of character is cumulative.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

But speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance. Speak the truth, and all things alive orbrute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

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.

Today is a king in disguise.