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

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.