A Senator Is Like A Begonia -

Nothing Is More Tiresome Than A Superannuated Pedagogue.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Had Always Been Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Insane Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards.

The Spider-mind Acquires A Faculty Of Memory, And, With It, A Singular Skill Of Analysis And Synthesis, Taking Apart And Putting Together In Different Relations The Meshes Of Its Trap. Man Had In The Beginning No Power Of Analysis Or Synthesis Approaching That Of The Spider, Or Even Of The Honey-bee; But He Had Acute Sensibility To The Higher Forces.

Politics Cannot Stop To Study Psychology Its Methods Are Rough; Its Judgments Rougher Still.

No Man, However Strong, Can Serve Ten Years As Schoolmaster, Priest, Or Senator, And Remain Fit For Anything Else. All The Dogmatic Stations In Life Have The Effect Of Fixing A Certain Stiffness Of Attitude Forever, As Though They Mesmerised The Subject.