Artists... Disappeared Long Ago As Social Forces.

Politics, As A Practise, Whatever Its Professions, Has Always Been The Systematic Organization Of Hatreds.

As History Stands, It Is A Sort Of Chinese Play, Without End Andl Without Lesson. With These Impressions I Wrote The Last Line Of My History, Asking For A Round Century Before Going Further.

Knowledge Of Human Nature Is The Beginning And End Of Political Education.

One Friend In A Lifetime Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly Possible.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Has Been Always Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Indecent Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards; But Also Because No Mind Is So Well Balanced As To Bear The Strain Of Seizing Unlimited Force Without Habit Or Knowledge Of It; And Finding It Disputed With Him By Hungry Packs Of Wolves And Hounds Whose Lives Depend On Snatching The Carion.