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

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

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.