Good men do the most harm..

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people.

The President may indeed in one respect resemble the commander of an army in peace, but in another and more essential sense he resembles the commande….

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is com….

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs sa….

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence..

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still..

Every one who marries goes it blind, more or less..

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; ….

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselv….

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on ….

If Washington were President now, he would have to learn our ways or lose his next election. Only fools and theorists imagine that our society can be….

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington..

The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday a….

My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least know or care where our pr….

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality..

Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of All….

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage..

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 o….

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson..

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail..