History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world have a chance for it.

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

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

Life is a school of probability.

The most essential mental quality for a free people, whose liberty is to be progressive, permanent and on a large scale, is much stupidity.

If you have to prove you are worthy of credit, your credit is already gone.