Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.