The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

the tea-hour is the hour of peace ... strife is lost in the hissing of the kettle - a tranquilizing sound, second only to the purring of a cat.

America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and to train our faculties are the few old friends we know so well that they have become a portion of our thinking selves.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.