What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn. They know enough who know how to learn. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible. 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. Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. A friend in power is a friend lost. Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | 
