Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

What society wants is a new motive, not a new cant.

We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.