The heart is the best logician.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.