One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.
From Henry Adams
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
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