Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

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