It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least changing the social situation. Artists, of course, disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church. Corporations are not elevators, but levellers, as I see them.

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

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.

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

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.