I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

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

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

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

A friend in power is a friend lost.