I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.