A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.