Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

I know of no teachers so powerful and persuasive as the little army of specialists. They carry no banners, they beat no drums; but where they are men learn that bustle and push are not the equals of quiet genius and serene mastery.

Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.