You May Talk Of The Tyranny Of

A Slight Daily Unconscious Luxury Is Hardly Ever Wanting To The Dwellers In Civilization; Like The Gentle Air Of A Genial Climate, It Is A Perpetual Minute Enjoyment.

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.

Life Is Not A Set Campaign, But An Irregular Work, And The Main Forces In It Are Not Overt Resolutions, But Latent And Half-involuntary Promptings.

In My Youth I Hoped To Do Great Things; Now I Shall Be Satisfied To Get Through Without Scandal.

You May Talk Of The Tyranny Of Nero And Tiberius; But The Real Tyranny Is The Tyranny Of Your Next-door Neighbor.