George F. Hoar: “Never advocate a cause in which you do not believe, or affect an emotion you do not feel.”

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.

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…

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.

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.