George F. Hoar: “The matter and substance of the orator's speech must depend upon the intellectual quality of the man.”

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.

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.

But I like to think he will be sent on some errands like that of the presence which came to Ben Adhem with a great wakening light, rich and like a lily in bloom, to tell him that the name of him who loved his fellow men led all the names…