If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

I find the name of Jesus Christ written on the top of every page of modern history.