Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

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.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.