To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

Most people are boring and stupid.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.