There is material among us for the broadest comedies and the deepest tragedies, but, besides money and leisure, it needs patience, perseverance, courage, and the hand of an artist to weave it into the literature of the country.

Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

A government which can protect and defend its citizens from wrong and outrage and does not is vicious. A government which would do it and cannot is weak; and where human life is insecure through either weakness or viciousness in the administration of law, there must be a lack of justice and where this is wanting, nothing can make up the deficiency.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.