Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

He also helped the Qing Dynasty in drafting the Treaty of Shimonoseki of 1895 as a legal consultant and commissioner. Secretary of State Allen Welsh Dulles a Director of Central Intelligence Eleanor Lansing Dulles economist and diplomat. See also.

Thereafter he was the U. His grandchildren included John Foster Dulles who also became a U. Minister to Mexico (1873–1880) to Russia (1880–1881) and to Spain (1883–1885).