Bagehot did what so many thousand of young graduates before him had done,--he studied for the bar; and then, having prepared himself to practise law, followed another large body of young men in deciding to abandon it.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

Washington has seldom seen so numerous, so industrious or so insidious a lobby. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby.... I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two houses, who would rejoice as much as I would to be released from this unbearable situation.

A nation is as great, and only as great, as her rank and file.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.

Absolute identity with one's cause is the first and great condition of successful leadership.

No man has ever risen to the stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.