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.

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.'

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

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

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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