George F. Hoar: “He was in my judgment a greater intellectual force than any other man in his time, Daniel Webster not excepted.”

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

This quaint old room, with its great oak beam overhead, and its kitchen grate wide enough to roast a deer--this strange blending of an hotel dining-room and a Court of Justice, has nevertheless a link with the far distant past more…

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

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…