Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.

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

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.