Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

Intimates are predestined.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.