We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose to himself.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

It has often been found that profuse expenditures, heavy taxation, absurd commercial restrictions, corrupt tribunals, disastrous wars, seditions, persecutions, conflagrations, inundation, have not been able to destroy capital so fast as the exertions of private citizens have been able to create it.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.