Henry James chews more than he bites off.

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

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

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.

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