The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

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

From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.