You know, all is development. The principle is perpetually going on. First, there was nothing, then there was something; then-I forget the next-I think there were shells, then fishes; then we came-let me see-did we come next? Never mind that; we came at last. And at the next change there will be something very superior to us-something with wings. Ah! That's it: we were fishes, and I believe we shall be crows.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary error is often more earnest than truth.

Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

The tendency of an advanced civilization is in truth monarchy.

We have legalized confiscation, consecrated sacrilege, and condoned high treason.