History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.

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.