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

A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.

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

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.