The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Woman.

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.

The Capacity Of Women To Make Unsuitable Marriages Must Be Considered As The Cornerstone Of Society.

A Period Of About Twelve Years Measured The Beat Of The Pendulum. After The Declaration Of Independence, Twelve Years Had Been Needed To Create An Efficient Constitution; Another Twelve Years Of Energy Brought A Reaction Against The Government Then Created; A Third Period Of Twelve Years Was Ending In A Sweep Toward Still Greater Energy; And Already A Child Could Calculate The Result Of A Few More Such Returns.

Although The Senate Is Much Given To Admiring In Its Members A Superiority Less Obvious Or Quite Invisible To Outsiders, One Senator Seldom Proclaims His Own Inferiority To Another, And Still More Seldom Likes To Be Told Of It.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Teach Historical Method, But, When Learned, It Has Little Use.