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.

Friends are born, not made.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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

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

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

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

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.