A Senator Is Like A Begonia -

Those Who Seek Education In The Paths Of Duty Are Always Deceived By The Illusion That Power In The Hands Of Friends Is An Advantage To Them.

American Society Is A Sort Of Flat, Fresh-water Pond Which Absorbs Silently, Without Reaction, Anything Which Is Thrown Into It.

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.

Every One Who Marries Goes It Blind, More Or Less.

Every Man Who Has At Last Succeeded, After Long Effort, In Calling Up The Divinity Which Lies Hidden In A Woman's Heart, Is Startled To Find That He Must Obey The God He Summoned.