Walter Bagehot: “The work of nature in making generations is a patchwork--part resemblance, part contrast.”

Those who doubt should go out into their kitchens.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

They say, We reject your Bill for this once or these twice, or even these thrice: but if you keep on sending it up, at last we won't reject it.