Ambition can creep as well as soar.

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.