True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories,--the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.