Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.

Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one can be sure any more that in a given case they will uphold the plainest mandate of the Constitution. On the contrary, everyone begins to be more or less convinced in advance that they won't. Judges are chosen not because they know the Constitution and are in favor of it, but precisely because they appear to be against it.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

There has been no organized effort to keep government down since Jefferson's day. Ever since then the American people have been bolstering up its powers and giving it more and more jurisdiction over their affairs. They pay for that folly in increased taxes and diminished liberties.

A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.