The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Charm" — which means the power to effect work without employing brute force — is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.