George F. Hoar: “She has never asked of them obsequiousness, or flattery, or even obedience to her will, unless it had the approval of…”

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…

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.