People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Quote by John Jay Chapman

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Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried...

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics...

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

There are lots of people who can't think seriously without injuring their brains

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

All progress is experimental.

All progress is experimental.

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to...

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion...

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion...