Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry B. Adams
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Friends are born, not made.
In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
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.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
The proper study of mankind is woman.
The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
They know enough who know how to learn.
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
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