There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.

Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

The rule for every man is, not to depend on the education which other men have prepared for him-not even to consent to it; but to strive to see things as they are, and to be himself as he is. Defeat lies in self-surrender.

To think that I, the son ofthe manse, should be able to help restore the Holy Land to its people.

They lived long that have lived well.

The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.