Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts..

Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No doubt the….

All experience is an arch, to build upon..

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 th….

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church..

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants..

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs..

My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River for the pleasure of ….

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he ….

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments t….

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and ….

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man..

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them..

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men..

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women..

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture..

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point..

The world is coming to an end in 1950..

Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they ….

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a….

Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute sensibility to the ….