Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.