Adlai Stevenson: “Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities.”

We, the heirs of all the ages, in the plenitude of our enjoyments, and the prodigality of the favors showered upon us, hail Columbus our benefactor.

The practical lesson to be drawn, one for all the ages, is the peril involved in a wife's untimely interruption of the wise observations and sage reflections of her husband.

And yet history will truly say of him that, while just to other Governments, no President has more firmly maintained the rights of his own.

Great evils often result from hasty legislation, rarely from the delay which follows full discussion and deliberation.