Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.

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.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

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.

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

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.