As the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.

One example is worth a thousand arguments.

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

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.