The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.

Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.