No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

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

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.