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.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

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

So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our past selves.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.