We can only obey our own polarity.

Truth has not single victories; all things are its organs,--not only dust and stones, but errors and lies.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

The world always had the same bankrupt look, to foregoing ages as to us.

In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity.

If it costs ten years, and ten to recover the general prosperity, the destruction of the South is worth so much.

No facts to me are sacred; none are profane.