No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums.

The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.

... I suppose that the party or sect which is to do any work in the world must breathe its own peculiar atmosphere, speak its own little patois, and see but one side of the question on which it fights.

Reform is born of need, not pity.

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great.