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.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.

You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.