Friends are born, not made.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
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.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
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