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

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Good men do the most harm.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.