Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.

Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.