“They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.”
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
“In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.”
“Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.”
“Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”