Never forgive at the ballot box!

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

We measure genius by quality, not by quantity.

Hearts are stronger than swords.

Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.