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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

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

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.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.