I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Is there life before death?
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.