A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

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.

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

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.