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

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

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

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.