A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.