It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.