No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.