the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

All along the line, physically, mentally, morally, alcohol is a weakening and deadening force.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

The interruptions of the telephone seem to us to waste half the life of the ordinary American engaged in public or private business; he has seldom half an hour consecutively at his own disposal - a telephone is a veritable time scatterer.