One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

I firmly believe, that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday, science shall have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Society' in America means all the honest, kindly-mannered, pleasant- voiced women, and all the good, brave, unassuming men, between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Each of these has a free pass in every city and village, 'good for this generation only,' and it depends on each to make use of this pass or not as it may happen to suit his or her fancy.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.