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.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

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

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.