The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.