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

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Good men do the most harm.

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

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.