Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion.

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

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

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

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.