Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

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

The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.