Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.

It is hardly fair to blame America for the state of San Francisco, for its population is cosmopolitan and its seaport attracts the floating vice of the Pacific; but be the cause what it may, there is much room for spiritual betterment.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.

My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.