1. “If one shed tears, they must be shed on one’s pillow.”
2. “Morality is a private and costly luxury.”
3. “Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.”
4. “During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.”
5. “History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.”
6. “Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
7. “A friend in power is a friend lost.”
8. “No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.”
9. “He to serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
10. “Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.”
11. “Every one who marries goes it bind, more or less.”
12. “Friends are born, not made.”
13. “The proper study of mankind is woman.”
14. “Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.”
15. “Politics, as practise, whatever its professions, has always been th suystematic organizations of hatreds.”
16. “It is always good men who do most harm in the world.”
17. “Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amout of ignorance it accumulate in the form of inert facts.”
18. “The woman is known only through a man is known wrong.”
19. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.”
20. “The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.”
21. “All experience is an arch, to build upon.”
22. “One friend in a life is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
23. “There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
24. “Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning.”
25. “They know enough who know how to learn.”
26. “Chaos breeds lie; Order creates habit.”
27. “Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.”
28. “Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
29. “Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.”
30. “Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.”
