"The first question is, do you propose to take a de facto train or a de jure train?"

We are forming an aristocracy, as you may observe, in this country,not a gratiâ-Dei, nor a jure-divino one,but a de-facto upper stratum of being, which floats over the turbid waves of common life as the iridescent film you may have seen spreading over the water about our wharves,very splendid, though its origin may have been tar, tallow, train-oil, or other such unctuous commodities.