Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town
Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.