Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
~ Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Friends are born, not made.
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.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.