Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

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

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

A parent gives life, but as parent, gives no more. A murderer takes life, but his deed stops there. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.