Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

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

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

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.