The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
Good government is the outcome of private virtue.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
As for boredom ... I notice that it leaves me as soon as I am doing something that has got to be done.
We cannot hand our faith to one another. ... Even in the Middle Ages when faith was theoretically uniform it was always practically individual.
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
