Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Greatness is its own torment.