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

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

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.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

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

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.