I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the first time, the stage-scenery of the senses collapsed; the human mind felt itself stripped naked, vibrating in a void of shapeless energies, with resistless mass, colliding, crushing, wasting, and destroying what these same energies had created and labored from eternity to perfect.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.