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.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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

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.