If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

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

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.