He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.