The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.

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.