It Is A Governing Principle Of Nature,

As Reason And Revelation Both Tell Us That This State Of Being Is But A Preparation For Another Of A Still Higher And More Spiritual Order, All The Interests Of Life Are Of Comparatively Little Importance, When Put In The Balance Against The Future.

The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity.

Hope Is The Most Treacherous Of All Human Fancies.

God Has Given The Salt Lick To The Deer; And He Has Given To Man, Red-skin And White, The Delicious Spring At Which To Slake His Thirst.

The Demagogue Is Usually Sly, A Detractor Of Others, A Professor Of Humility And Disinterestedness, A Great Stickler For Equality As Respects All Above Him, A Man Who Acts In Corners, And Avoids Open And Manly Expositions Of His Course, Calls Blackguards Gentlemen, And Gentlemen Folks, Appeals To Passions And Prejudices Rather Than To Reason, And Is In All Respects, A Man Of Intrigue And Deception, Of Sly Cunning And Management.