Needlepoint is a superb way to stop smoking and nibbling, and unlike counted cross stitch also allows the mind to wander. – Carole Berman and Jennifer Lazarus
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. – Caleb Cushing
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg