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 the purposes of Providence.

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

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.

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