You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.