History does not forbid us to hope. But it forbids us to rely upon numbers; they will be against us. If history teaches anything worth learning it teaches that the majority of mankind is neither good nor wise. When government is founded upon the public conscience and the public intelligence the stability of states is a dream.
But a voting-machine that human ingenuity can not pervert, human ingenuity can not invent. That.
We must subdue our detestable habit of shaking hands with prosperous rascals and fawning upon the merely rich.
To expect that men who do not honorably and intelligently conduct their private affairs will honorably and intelligently conduct the affairs of the community is to be a fool.
He did all of this without thinking but with care.
Every murder proves that hanging is not altogether deterrent; every hanging, that it is somewhat deterrent – it deters the person hanged.
ALONE, adj. In bad company.
AMATEUR, n. A public nuisance who mistakes taste for skill, and confounds his ambition with his ability.
Ah, that we could fall into women’s arms without falling into their hands.
There is no place, it seems, free from the intrusion of Man, who stretches out his hand for everything, even that which is in the air.
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers.
The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame, and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material.
ANIMAL, n. An organism which, requiring a great number of other animals for its sustenance, illustrates in a marked way the bounty of Providence in preserving the lives of his creatures.
ABRUPT, adj. Sudden, without ceremony, like the arrival of a cannon- shot and the departure of the soldier whose interests are most affected by it. Dr. Samuel Johnson beautifully said of another author’s ideas that they were “concatenated without abruption.
An Italian proverb says: “The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
ANTAGONIST, n. The miserable scoundrel who won’t let us.
His virtues were so conspicuous that his enemies, unable to overlook them, denied them, and his friends, to whose loose lives they were a rebuke, represented them as vices. They are here commemorated by his family, who shared them. In.
The infallible teacher is still in the forest primeval, throwing seeds to the white blackbirds.