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

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.