Falsehood Is A Perennial Spring.

Adversity Is A Severe Instructor, Set Over Us By One Who Knows Us Better Than We Do Ourselves.

Power Gradually Extirpates From The Mind Every Humane And Gentle Virtue.

No Man Can Mortgage His Injustice As A Pawn For His Fidelity.

Great Men Are The Guideposts And Landmarks In The State.

It Is Very Rare, Indeed, For Men To Be Wrong In Their Feelings Concerning Public Misconduct; As Rare To Be Right In Their Speculations Upon The Cause Of It. I Have Constantly Observed That The Generality Of People Are Fifty Years, At Least, Behind In Their Politics.