A Refined Simplicity Is The Characteristic Of

Perfection Is Always Found In Maturity, Whether It Be In The Animal Or In The Intellectual World. Reflection Is The Mother Of Wisdom, And Wisdom The Parent Of Success.

The Novice In The Military Art Flew From Point To Point, Retarding His Own Preparations By The Excess Of His Violent And Somewhat Distempered Zeal; While The More Practiced Veteran Made His Arrangements With A Deliberation That Scorned Every Appearance Of Haste

Commerce Is Entitled To A Complete And Efficient Protection In All Its Legal Rights, But The Moment It Presumes To Control A Country, Or To Substitute Its Fluctuating Expedients For The High Principles Of Natural Justice That Ought To Lie At The Root Of Every Political System, It Should Be Frowned On, And Rebuked.

The Vulgar Charge That The Tendency Of Democracies Is To Leveling, Meaning To Drag All Down To The Level Of The Lowest, Is Singularly Untrue; Its Real Tendency Being To Elevate The Depressed To A Condition Not Unworthy Of Their Manhood.

Aristocracy: A Combination Of Many Powerful Men, For The Purpose Of Maintaining Their Own Particular Interests. It Is Consequently A Concentration Of All The Most Effective Parts Of A Community For A Given End, Hence Its Energy, Efficiency And Success.