During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

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

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

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.