Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile

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

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

Morality is a private and costly luxury

They know enough who know how to learn

In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.”

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable

“It is always good men who do the most harm in the world

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts

Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage

All experience is an arch to build upon

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

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or senator, and remain fit for anything else

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong