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

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

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

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

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

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

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.