Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The world is coming to an end in 1950.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.