A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.