“American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.”
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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.
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.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.