Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.

The religion of Christ is peace and good-will,--the religion of Christendom is war and ill-will.

The present, like a note in music, is nothing but as it appertains to what is past and what is to come.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.