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.

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.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.