Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.