There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.