Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women.

No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Ántonia.

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.