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

Women have, commonly, a very positive moral sense; that which they will, is right; that which they reject, is wrong; and their will, in most cases, ends by settling the moral.

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

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.