Modern Politics Is, At Bottom, A Struggle

All State Education Is A Sort Of Dynamo Machine For Polarizing The Popular Mind; For Turning And Holding Its Lines Of Force In The Direction Supposed To Be Most Effective For State Purposes.

The Capacity Of Women To Make Unsuitable Marriages Must Be Considered As The Cornerstone Of Society.

Average Human Nature Is Very Coarse, And Its Ideals Must Necessarily Be Average. The World Never Loved Perfect Poise. What The World Does Love Is Commonly Absence Of Poise, For It Has To Be Amused.

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.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.