Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

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.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.