The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.

Nothing is more tiresome than a superannuated pedagogue.

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

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

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