The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

Not all change is progress.

No man ever saw a government. I live in the midst of the Government of the United States, but I never saw the Government of the United States.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.