History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.