I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.