Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — Maxims for Statesmen. [ARTICLE]

Maxims for Statesmen.

Doctor Jewett, In one of his notebooks—he bad twenty or thirty volumes of notes and reilectlons which he had written during his life—jotted down the following maxims for state* men and others: Never quarrel. Never fear. Never explain. Never spare. Never hate. Never tell. Never fret. Never detract. Never disappoint. Never fall.