He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together.

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country that Neanderthal man is organizing in these forlorn backwaters of the land, led by a fanatic, rid of sense and devoid of conscience.

[Science] must be amoral by its very nature: The minute it begins separating facts into the two categories of good ones and bad ones it ceases to be science and becomes a mere nuisance, like theology.