Suicide is not a remedy

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

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

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

Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.

Ideas control the world.

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.