Political Convulsions, Like Geological Upheavings Usher In

Statutes Are Mere Milestone, Telling How Far Yesterday's Thought Had Traveled; And The Talk Of The Sidewalk Today Is The Law Of The Land. With Us, Law In Nothing Unless Close Behind It Stands A Warm, Living Public Opinion.

Take The Whole Range Of Imaginative Literature, And We Are All Wholesale Borrowers. In Every Matter That Relates To Invention, To Use, Or Beauty Or Form, We Are Borrowers.

Great Political Questions Stir The Deepest Nature Of One-half The Nation, But They Pass Far Above And Over The Heads Of The Other Half.

You Can Always Get The Truth From An American Statesman After He Has Turned Seventy, Or Given Up All Hope Of The Presidency.

The Puritan's Idea Of Hell Is A Place Where Everybody Has To Mind His Own Business.