 One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim. Topics: Friendship |
| It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own. |
| Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. Topics: Marriage |
| Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. |
| The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek. |
| The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. |
| No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. |
| Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man. |
| A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops. |
| Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything. |
| Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. |
| Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. |
| American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it. |
| Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. |
| The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. |
| Morality is a private and costly luxury. |
| Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. Topics: Education |
| They know enough who know how to learn. |
| Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts. |
| He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. |
