The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Friends are born, not made.

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.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.