Nations Touch At Their Summits.

The Greatest Mistake Is Trying To Be More Agreeable Than You Can Be.

A Political Country Is Like An American Forest; You Have Only To Cut Down The Old Trees, And Immediately New Trees Come Up To Replace Them.

It Is Often Said That Men Are Ruled By Their Imaginations; But It Would Be Truer To Say They Are Governed By The Weakness Of Their Imaginations.

There Seems To Be An Unalterable Contradiction Between The Human Mind And Its Employments. How Can A Soul Be A Merchant? What Relation To An Immortal Being Have The Price Of Linseed, The Brokerage On Hemp? Can An Undying Creature Debit Petty Expenses And Charge For Carriage Paid? The Soul Ties Its Shoes; The Mind Washes Its Hands In A Basin. All Is Incongruous.

The Best Reason Why Monarchy Is A Strong Government Is, That It Is An Intelligible Government. The Mass Of Mankind Understand It, And They Hardly Anywhere In The World Understand Any Other.