Good Men Do The Most Harm.

As A Historian, He Felt It His Duty To Respect Everything That Had Ever Been Respected, Except For The Occasional Statesman.

If Our Minds Could Get Hold Of One Abstract Truth, They Would Be Immortal So Far As That Truth Is Concerned. My Trouble Is To Find Out How We Can Get Hold Of The Truth At All.

As For America, It Is The Ideal Fruit Of All Your Youthful Hopes And Reforms. Everybody Is Fairly Decent, Respectable, Domestic, Bourgeois, Middle-class, And Tiresome. There Is Absolutely Nothing To Revile Except That It's A Bore.

I Would Rather Starve And Rot And Keep The Privilege Of Speaking The Truth As I See It, Than Of Holding All The Offices That Capital Has To Give From The Presidency Down.

The Proof That A Philosopher Does Not Know What He Is Talking About Is Apt To Sadden His Followers Before It Reacts On Himself.