It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.