Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century.

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

No sincere desire of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has surely a flaw in it which cannot sympathize with the oppressor equally as with the oppressed.

It may be conjectured that it is cheaper in the long run to lift men up than to hold them down, and that the ballot in their hands is less dangerous to society than a sense of wrong is in their heads.