There is no pleasing New Englanders, my dear, their soil is all rocks and their hearts are bloodless absolutes.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for t…

Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men th…