History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

A German joke is no laughing matter.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.