Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.

I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way.

I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.