All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Friends are born, not made.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.