“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
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The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
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.
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.
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.