 Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. |
| Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. |
| The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin. |
| There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. |
| Intimates are predestined. |
| Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. |
| The proper study of mankind is woman. |
| Friends are born, not made. |
| In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man. |
| Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education. |
| A friend in power is a friend lost. |
| Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. |
| The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. |
| No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. |
| Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. |
| We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable. |
| At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. |
| The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing. |
