One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.