No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

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.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

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

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

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.