I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.