The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.