The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.

- William M. Evarts

Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinanc…

- William M. Evarts

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

- William M. Evarts

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

- William M. Evarts

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

- William M. Evarts

The dignity of the act is the deliberate, circumspect, open, and serene performance by these men in the clear light of day, and by a concurrent purpo…

- William M. Evarts