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.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.