Against them make ready your strength to the utmost of your power, including steeds of war, to strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies, of Allah and your enemies, and others besides, whom ye may not know, but whom Allah doth know

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.

As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

Intimates are predestined.

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.