Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

A book is the only immortality.

Mathematics may, be briefly defined as the science of quantities, and is one of the most important of disciplining studies which engage the practical student.

You don't want a diction gathered from the newspapers, caught from the air, common and unsuggestive; but you want one whose every word is full-freighted with suggestion and association, with beauty and power.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.