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.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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.
Friends are born, not made.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.