Henry Watterson: “President, and you can believe it or not, as you please; though you ought to know that I would write you nothing except…”

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.

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

Socialism, disappointed of its Utopia, may then repeat the familiar lesson and reproduce the man-on-horseback, or the world may drop into another abyss, and, after the ensuing “dark ages,” like those that swallowed Babylon and Tyre, Greece…

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.