It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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

Every government is always growing corrupt.