Henry Watterson: “I did not think I could afford to have you lose on my suggestion and I went to cover your loss, when I found five…”

But my face in the glass I’ll serenely survey, And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow— That this worn-out old stuff which is thread-bare to-day Shall become everlasting to-morrow.

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

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.

O Liberty,” cried Madame Roland, “how many crimes are committed in thy name!” “O Churchism,” may I not say, “how much nonsense is trolled off in thy name!