"It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs."

"The intuition is not a welling forth of love to people and, therefore, an understanding of them. Much that is called the intuition is recognition of similarities and the possession of a clear analytic…"

"he most important position in a democracy is not the office of the President. The most important office is the office of citizen, because if you have citizens who are informed and know about other cou…"

"I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers — the forthr…"

"There are always an ample sufficiency of compassionate neighbours ready to console one who, by common consent, is styled "the disconsolate widower."