There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it.

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

In all church discussions we are apt to forget the second Testament is avowedly only a supplement. Jesus came to complete the law and the prophets. Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing. Christianity is incomprehensible without Judaism, as Judaism is incomplete without Christianity.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.