All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.

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

The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Thrift of time will repay you in after-life with a thousandfold of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

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