Teachers Affect Eternity. There Is

Average Human Nature Is Very Coarse, And Its Ideals Must Necessarily Be Average. The World Never Loved Perfect Poise. What The World Does Love Is Commonly Absence Of Poise, For It Has To Be Amused.

You Can't Use Tact With A Congressman! A Congressman Is A Hog! You Must Take A Stick And Hit Him On The Snout!

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.

There Are Two Things That Seem To Be At The Bottom Of Our Constitutions; One Is A Continual Tendency Towards Politics; The Other Is Family Pride; And It Is Strange How These Two Feelings Run Through All Of Us.

A Period Of About Twelve Years Measured The Beat Of The Pendulum. After The Declaration Of Independence, Twelve Years Had Been Needed To Create An Efficient Constitution; Another Twelve Years Of Energy Brought A Reaction Against The Government Then Created; A Third Period Of Twelve Years Was Ending In A Sweep Toward Still Greater Energy; And Already A Child Could Calculate The Result Of A Few More Such Returns.