There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.
Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Friends are born, not made.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
Good men do the most harm.
They know enough who know how to learn.
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 progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.