Government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party; the rich and the strong can better take care of themselves.

The days are made on a loom whereof the warp and woof are past and future time. They are majestically dressed, as if every god brought a thread to the skyey web.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

The cruelest foe is a masked benefactor. The wars which make history so dreary have served the cause of truth and virtue.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.