Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
The proper study of mankind is woman.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Intimates are predestined.
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.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
They know enough who know how to learn.
Friends are born, not made.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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.
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