I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency, - Doris Kearns Goodwin

Unlike depression, melancholy does not have a specific cause. It is an aspect of temperament, perhaps genetically based. One may emerge from the hypo, as Lincoln did, but melancholy is an indelible part of one's nature.

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

The flames of a new economic evolution run around us, and we turn to find that competition has killed competition, that corporations are grown greater than the State . . . and that the naked issue of our time is with property becoming master, instead of servant.