Moral supremacy is the only one that leaves monuments, and not ruins, behind it.

Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.