Henry Watterson: “Cleveland was shocked and outraged, and I made haste to stigmatize it as a lie out of whole cloth.”

Too many churches—or, shall I say, church fabrics—breeding controversy where there should be agreement, each sect and subdivision fighting phantoms of its fancy.

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…

In short he was an opportunist void of conviction and indifferent to consistency.

With a kind of education—most men taught to read, very few to think—the masses are likely to demand yet more and more for themselves.