The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.