During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession