A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

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

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.