Henry Watterson: “Under an unpromising exterior—a stocky build and fiery red head—there glowed a brave, generous and tender spirit.”

We should say to Europe: “Shinny on your own side of the water and we will shinny on our side.” It may be that Napoleon’s opinion will come true that ultimately Europe will be “all Cossack or all republican.” Part of it has come true…

Yet it is after all a figure of speech not a personality that appeals to our sense of duty without necessarily engaging our affection.

Religion’s the only game whar you can’t lose.

But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment—gush and gammon—in the proposed League of Nations.