An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.