Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

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

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

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.