The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

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

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.