Knowledge Of Human Nature Is

History Is The Most Aristocratic Of All Literary Pursuits, Because It Obliges The Historian To Be Rich As Well As Educated.

In Correct Theology, The Virgin Ought Not To Be Represented In Bed, For She Could Not Suffer Like Ordinary Women, But Her Palace At Chartres Is Not Much Troubled By Theology, And To Her, As Empress-mother, The Pain Of Child-birth Was A Pleasure Which She Wanted Her People To Share.

Unbroken Evolution Under Uniform Conditions Pleased Every One -- Except Curates And Bishops; It Was The Very Best Substitute For Religion; A Safe, Conservative Practical, Thoroughly Common-law Deity.

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.

He Never Labored So Hard To Learn A Language As He Did To Hold His Tongue, And It Affected Him For Life. The Habit Of Reticence — Of Talking Without Meaning — Is Never Effaced.