Henry Gardiner Adams

Hell is truth seen too late.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean.

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

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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