| Quotes |
Topic |
| Books First Lines | For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. |
| Books and Reading | No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| Congress | No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else. |
| Doubt | No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. |
| Education | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
| Fact | Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts. |
| Friendship | 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. |
| History | No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics. |
| Language | No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |
| Liberty | Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| Men and Women | The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. |
| Order | Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
| Philosophy | Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. |
| Public Speaking | The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. |
| Restraint | Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. |
| Teachers | A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. |
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