Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving.

Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

I doubt if these two fine, active minds [President and Mrs. Roosevelt] have ever inquiried how it is they know what they know and think as they do. Nor have they ever thought of what they might have been if they had grown up in an entirely different culture. They have the disposition of all politicians world over to deal only with made opinion. They have never inquired how it is that opinion is made.

I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter.

The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.