Disappointment is often the salt of life.

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

Politics is the science of urgencies.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.