Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

"I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it."

"Oh, one world at a time!"

"When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before."

"Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient."