As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

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.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.