“It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. ”

“Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.”

“Only poor men get hanged.”

“Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.”

“Life is indeed terribly complicated—to a man who has lost his principles.”

“People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.”

“They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.”