Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.
The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.