It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.