It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

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.

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

The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.

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.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.