Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

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

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

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

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

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud, all of us know it, laborers and capitalists alike, and all of us are consenting parties to it.