I Do Not Pretend That All That

As For Bread, I Count That For Nothin'. We Always Have Bread And Potatoes Enough; But I Hold A Family To Be In A Desperate Way When The Mother Can See The Bottom Of The Pork Barrel. Give Me Children That's Raised On Good Sound Pork Afore All The Game In The Country. Game's Good As A Relish And So's Bread; But Pork Is The Staff Of Life... My Children I Calkerlate To Bring Up On Pork With Just As Much Bread And Butter As They Want.

The Sublimity Connected With Vastness, Is Familiar To Every Eye.

Apathy Is The Great Requisite For The Station; For Woe Betide The Wretch Who Fancies Any Modicum Of Zeal.

Equality, In A Social Sense, May Be Divided Into That Of Condition, And That Of Rights. Equality Of Condition Is Incompatible With Civilization, And Is Found Only To Exist In Those Communities That Are But Slightly Removed From The Savage State. In Practice, It Can Only Mean A Common Misery. Equality Of Rights Is A Peculiar Feature Of Democracies. These Rights Are Properly Divided Into Civil And Political, Though Even These Definitions Are Not To Be Taken As Absolute, Or As Literally Exact.

Battles, Unlike Bargains, Are Rarely Discussed In Society.