To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

When you find that a book is poor ... waste no more time upon it.

The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.

The massacres are the result of a policy which, as far as can be ascertained, has been entertained for some considerable time by the gang of unscrupulous adventurers who are now in possession of the Government of the Turkish Empire. They hesitated to put it in practice until they thought the favorable moment had come, and that moment seems to have arrived about the month of April.