The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to the occasion. We cannot escape history. We will be remembered in spite of ourselves. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour, to the last generation. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, our last best hope of Earth.

I don't s'pose anybody on earth likes gingerbread better'n I do-and gets less'n I do.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.