At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

I extremely believe in luck, and I discovered more hard work, your luck as much

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.