Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one.

In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for King Lear, or a hanging, or a course of medical journals.