There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

The care of the public health is the first duty of the statesman.

Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

The canter is a cure for every evil.