A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that "the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look a...t it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he i...s you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The confidence and security of a people can be measured by their attitude toward laxatives. At the high noon of the British sun, s...oldiers in far-flung outposts of the Empire doctored themselves with "a spoonful o' gunpowder in a cuppa 'ot tea." Purveyors and users of harsh laxatives were not afraid of being thought mean and unfriendly just because their laxatives were. But in America, the need to be nice is so consuming that nobody would dare take a laxative that makes you run up the stairs two at a time, pushing others aside and yelling, "Get out of the way!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude; they are not unfr...iendly; they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that ...we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintain it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any European power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My feelings about my work are, on the whole, not unfriendly. Boundless modesty and what people call "humility" are virtues scarcel...y conducive to one's complacently dwelling upon one's own work--particularly when one lacks them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might be carried by a c...lose and careful and perfect organization and a great deal of--[from audience: "soap"Ma reference to purchased votes, the word being followed by laughter]. I see reporters here, and therefore I will simply say that everybody showed a great deal of interest in the occasion, and distributed tracts and political documents all through the country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »