1. “The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.”
2. “Happiness is an endowment and not an acquisition it depends more upon temperament an disposition than environment.”
3. “The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.”
4. “Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.”
5. “I think some orator commenting upon that fate said that though the winds of haven might whistle around an Englishman’s cottage, the King of England could not.”
6. “I answer not, and I return no more.”
7. “Grass is the forgiveness of nature-her constant benediction. Fields trampled with battle, saturated with blood, torn with the ruts of cannon, grow green again with grass and carnage is forgotten. Streets abandoned by traffic become grass-grown, like rural lanes and are obliterated. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal..”
8. Ad astra per aspera. Translated: “to the stars through difficulties”.
9. “In the democracy of all dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.”
10. “Delaware; a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.”
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