“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.”
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.