Right reason is stronger than force.

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.

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

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

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

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.