Love of country produces among men such examples as Cincinnatus, Alfred, Washington--pure, unselfish, symmetrical; among women, Vittoria Colonna, Madame Roland, Charlotte Corday, Jeanne Darc--romantic, devoted, marvelous.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

My dog! the difference between thee and me knows only our Creator.

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.