No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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.

My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.

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

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.