Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Friends are born, not made.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.