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

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

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

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.

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

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.

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