If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election.

Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be handled with gloves or long poles.

One must make one's self a part of it.

If virtue won't answer our purpose, we must use vice, or our opponents will put us out of office, and this was as true in Washington's day as it is now, and always will be." "Come," said Lord Skye, who was beginning to fear an open quarrel; "the conversation verges on treason, and I am accredited to this government.
Why not examine the grounds ?" A kind of natural sympathy led Lord Dunbeg to wander by the side of Miss Dare through the quaint old garden.

His mind being much occupied by the effort of stowing away the impressions he had just received, he was more than usually absent in his manner, and this want of attention irritated the young lady.