Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.