Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
His brothers were the type; he was the variation.
History is only a value of relation.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.