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Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.
During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.
Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.
[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.
We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.
I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.
It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.