George F. Hoar: “He had a rare and exquisite gift which, if he had been a man of letters and not a man engaged in a strenuous public…”

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.