California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.