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.

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.