Henry Watterson: “In point of fact I have an impression that, barring Jackson and Polk, most of those who have got there were loath to…”

It is love—love through grace of God—truth where we can find it—which shall irradiate the life that is.

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

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.

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.