As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.