History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

I am an obsessive rewriter, doing one draft and then another and another, usually five. In a way, I have nothing to say, but a great deal to add.

The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.

A superficial education would be worse than none. But a full education would open every man's eyes to the nature of human existence.

I was brought up to believe that what is out-of-doors should stay there and not be encouraged in any way.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

It is astonishing to think that millions of people in my time—now, too, I suppose—actually thought that at a given moment in history two human beings had evolved to a higher state than that of all the gods that ever were or ever will be. This is titanism, as the Greeks would say. This is madness.