The proper study of mankind is woman.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Society is immoral and immortal; it can afford to commit any kind of folly, and indulge in any sort of vice; it cannot be killed, and the fragments that survive can always laugh at the dead.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.