George F. Hoar: “He was zealous for the honor of the country, and never sacrificed the interest of the country to party or sectional…”

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.

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.

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.