How sublime is the audacious tautology of Mohammed, God is God!
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be.
Of all the portions of life it is in the two twilights, childhood and age, that tears fall with the most frequency; like the dew at dawn and eve.
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
Public opinion is a second conscience.
Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has,--a friend.