One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

People here are quite struck aback at Sunday's news of the capture of New Orleans. It took them three days to make up their minds to believe it. The division of American had become an idea so fixed that they had about shut out all the avenues to the reception of any other.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Friends are born, not made.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.