This was my ideal, and to the best of my ability I strove to live up to it.
To a young man, life in the New York Legislature was always interesting and often entertaining.

There was always a struggle of some kind on hand.

Sometimes it was on a naked question of right and wrong.

Sometimes it was on a question of real constructive statesmanship.

Moreover, there were all kinds of humorous incidents, the humor being usually of the unconscious kind.