We want to persuade other people as quickly as possible to think as we do.

To persuade, we must back all our talkee-talkee by facts, and to get facts we must work and endure in patience.

You see what an amazingly clear political economist I am.

Wait till we run into the fleet; we shall be sure to catch them before the trawls go down for the night, and, unless I'm mistaken, some of us will be astonished.

I never go into a new fleet without seeing what a little weir we have at present to check a Niagara of affliction." Mrs.Walton had much to do with many philanthropic movements, and men were always glad to hear her judgments--mainly because she was not a platform woman.