A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
From Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
They know enough who know how to learn.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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.
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.
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