As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

The sorrows and disasters of Europe always brought fortune to America.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.