I have read too much and seen too much.

At my present time of life they count not at all.

I used to think that there was a principle involved between the dogmas of Free Trade and Protection as they were preached by their respective attorneys.

Yet what was either except the ancient, everlasting scheme-- -- "_The good old role--the simple plan, That they should take who have the power And they should keep who can_." How little wisdom one man may get from another man's counsels, one nation may get from another nation's history, can be partly computed when we reflect how often our personal experience has failed in warning admonition.
Temperament and circumstance do indeed cut a prodigious figure in life.
Traversing the older countries, especially Spain, the most illustrative, the wayfarer is met at all points by what seems not merely the logic of events, but the common law of the inevitable.

The Latin of the Sixteenth century was a recrudescence of the Roman of the First.