Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.