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

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.