History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

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

What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

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