Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

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

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Revolutions never go backwards.