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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Friends are born, not made.

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.

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

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.