Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.

Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.