One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible

Friends are born, not made

A friend in power is a friend lost

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

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

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

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

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit