Orange Jacobs: “The American people, yea the Anglo-Saxon race, are believers in law and order.”

Peace has her victories no less renowned than war's.

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.

He had to rely on his remembrance of general principles; and he learned to reason from those general principles to his conclusions; and his success at the Bar depended upon the clearness of his statements and the cogency and force of his…

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.