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

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.