The proper study of mankind is woman.
From Henry Adams
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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.
Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.
Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Intimates are predestined.
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