History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it.