Society,--the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

The slowest of us cannot but admit that the world moves.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.

The republic which sinks to sleep, trusting to constitutions and machinery, to politicians and statesmen, for the safety of its liberties, never will have any.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.