Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.