His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

Intimates are predestined.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.