Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed.