It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.