It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.

Ah, you know my weaknesses--my children and my horses.

I would like to call your attention to ... an evil that, if allowed to continue, will probably lead to great trouble ... It is the accumulation of vast amounts of untaxed church property.

If you see the President, tell him from me that whatever happens there will be no turning back.

Venice would be a fine city if it were only drained.