It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.

Like Prince von Bismarck in diplomacy, I have no secrets.

Organized Christianity has always represented immortality as a sort of common heritage; but I never could see why spiritual life should not be conditioned on the same terms as all life, i. e., correspondence with environment.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

As sheer casual reading matter, I still find the English dictionary the most interesting book in our language.

Americans have a strange notion that the ordinary laws of economics do not apply to them. So doubtless they will think they are prosperous if the boom starts, and that deficits and indebtedness are merely signs of how prosperous they are.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...