I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

Too many piglets not enough tits.

Human-nature will not change.

It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.