Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

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

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.