I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Chaos was the law of nature Order was the dream of man.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.