Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

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

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

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire.