Nothing Is So Useless As A General

A Politician Must Often Talk And Act Before He Has Thought And Read. He May Be Very Ill Informed Respecting A Question: All His Notions About It May Be Vague And Inaccurate; But Speak He Must. And If He Is A Man Of Ability, Of Tact, And Of Intrepidity, He Soon Finds That, Even Under Such Circumstances, It Is Possible To Speak Successfully.

That Wonderful Book, While It Obtains Admiration From The Most Fastidious Critics, Is Loved By Those Who Are Too Simple To Admire It.

A Dominant Religion Is Never Ascetic.

By Poetry We Mean The Art Of Employing Of Words In Such A Manner As To Produce An Illusion On The Imagination; The Art Of Doing By Means Of Words, What The Painter Does By Means Of Colors.

Genius Is Subject To The Same Laws Which Regulate The Production Of Cotton And Molasses.