The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.