Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.