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

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

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

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.