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

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.