All experience is an arch, to build upon.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.