They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.

Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate.

Ideas control the world.

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.

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