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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

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

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.