You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.

They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.