"Enjoying an extraordinary knowledge of languages (ancient and modern), literature, and art, by his cultured personali…"

"When young persons are summoned from this world ere they have mingled in its sinful pursuits, they can be readily yie…"

"• Let the future historian, if he will, add beauty of expression and the charm of polished diction to this plain, unp…"

"The West, at bottom, is a form of society, rather than an area. It is the term applied to the region whose social con…"

"American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Sarah Constant to Virginia, nor in the …"

"The memory of one who is taken into the heart of a little child is kept forever green."

"No amount of past oppression can justify women's oppression of the most vulnerable among us."

"At the heart of her doubts about secular liberalism (and what she described as "radical, upscale feminism") was its e…"

"One can live there and feel quite at home because one can lose his heart to any country, and it is a commonplace that…"

"Manifest Destiny and imperialism were traps into which the nation was led in 1846 and in 1899, and from which it extr…"