The proper study of mankind is woman.

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

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

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.