The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.