The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.
Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
I answer not, and I return no more.
Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
Ad astra per aspera. Translated: “to the stars through difficulties”.
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishman’s cottage, the King of England could not.
Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition. It depends more upon temperament and disposition than environment.