Eating scarcely anything and drinking less, the purely intellectual stimulus of conversation seemed to unloose his tongue and give to his pronouncements a more pungent tone.

Naturally, politics remained the subject of discussion and Dartrey disclosed a little the reason for the meeting which he had arranged.
"The craft of politics," he pointed out, "makes but one inexorable demand upon her followers--the demand for unity.

The amazing thing is that this is not generally realised.

It seems the fashion, nowadays, to dissent from everything, to cultivate the ego in its narrowest sense rather than to try and reach out and grasp the hands of those around.
The fault, I think, is in an over-developed theatrical sense, the desire which so many clever men have for individual notoriety.

We Democrats have prospered because we have been free from it.