To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

To put it in rude, plain, unpalatable words - true patriotism, real patriotism: loyalty not to a Family and a Fiction, but a loyalty to the Nation itself! ...'…

The Blessings-of-Civilization Trust, wisely and cautiously administered, is a Daisy. There is more money in it, more territory, more sovereignty, and other kin…

Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

Ocean, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.

Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle, Shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.