Statistics Has Been The Handmaid Of Science,

I Am Receiving What I Suppose To Be The Usual Number Of Threatening Letters On The Subject. Assassination Can Be No More Guarded Against Than Death By Lightning; It Is Best Not To Worry About Either.

The Chief Instrument Of American Statistics Is The Census, Which Should Accomplish A Two-fold Object. It Should Serve The Country By Making A Full And Accurate Exhibit Of The Elements Of National Life And Strength, And It Should Serve The Science Of Statistics By So Exhibiting General Results That They May Be Compared With Similar Data Obtained By Other Nations.

Swift Defined Observation To Be An Old Man's Memory.

I Never Meet A Ragged Boy In The Street Without Feeling That I May Owe Him A Salute, For I Know Not What Possibilities May Be Buttoned Up Under His Coat.

You And I Are Now Nearly In Middle Age, And Have Not Yet Become Soured And Shrivelled With The Wear And Tear Of Life. Let Us Pray To Be Delivered From That Condition Where Life And Nature Have No Fresh, Sweet Sensations For Us.