There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

We will peck them to death to-morrow, my dear.

You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.