Aphorisms

Laws are silent amid arms.

If all public questions were settled by shooting dice, fifty percent of them would be settled correctly. This would be five times as good a score as we make now.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Falsehood flies, and Truth comes limping after it.

Appeal: in law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

Politician: an eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared.

Lawyer: one skilled in circumvention of the law.

Elector: one who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man’s choice.

Politics: the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Politics: a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.