Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but also because no mind is so well balanced as to bear the strain of seizing unlimited force without habit or knowledge of it; and finding it disputed with him by hungry packs of wolves and hounds whose lives depend on snatching the carion.

Good men do the most harm.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.