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

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.