Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.