There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.

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

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.

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

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.