Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.

Women--one half the human race at least--care fifty times more for a marriage than a ministry.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.

All people are most credulous when they are most happy.

Go ahead and do the impossible. It's worth the look on the faces of those who said you couldn't.

The purse strings tie us to our kind.