A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Not only does a bureaucracy tend to under-government in point of quality; it tends to over-government in point of quantity.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.