For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he may go out of this world having, in his great sphere or his small one, done some little good for his fellow creatures and labored a little to diminish the sin and sorrow that are in the world.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

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