One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.

The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood in the American people, must take second place, not first place.

Government ought to be all outside and no inside. . . . Everybody knows that corruption thrives in secret places, and avoids public places, and we believe it a fair presumption that secrecy means impropriety.

Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,--a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.