If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

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.

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