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