Justice delayed is justice denied.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.