I Have The Greatest Aversion To Being

All Appointments Hurt. Five Friends Are Made Cold Or Hostile For Every Appointment; No New Friends Are Made. All Patronage Is Perilous To Men Of Real Ability Or Merit. It Aids Only Those Who Lack Other Claims To Public Support.

I Have A Talent For Silence And Brevity. I Can Keep Silent When It Seems Best To Do So, And When I Speak I Can, And Do Usually, Quit When I Am Done. This Talent, Or These Two Talents, I Have Cultivated. Silence And Concise, Brief Speaking Have Got Me Some Laurels, And, I Suspect, Lost Me Some. No Odds. Do What Is Natural To You, And You Are Sure To Get All The Recognition You Are Entitled To.

We Are In A Period When Old Questions Are Settled And The New Are Not Yet Brought Forward. Extreme Party Action, If Continued In Such A Time, Would Ruin The Party. Moderation Is Its Only Chance. The Party Out Of Power Gains By All Partisan Conduct Of Those In Power

There Are Two Tendencies In All Our War Talk.... The First Is To Boast, If Not Of Ourselves And Our Deeds, At Least Of Our Army, Our Corps, Our Regiments. The Other Is To Find Fault With, To Criticize, To Censure, To Condemn Others. If There Is A Victory, We Gained It And Must Have The Credit Of It. If There Is A Failure, It Was The Fault Of The Other Fellow,--he Must Be Blamed For It.

Law Without Education Is A Dead Letter. With Education The Needed Law Follows Without Effort And, Of Course, With Power To Execute Itself; Indeed, It Seems To Execute Itself.