What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.

The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his belief to another.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.