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.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Whenever a man reaches the top of the political ladder, his enemies unite to pull him down. His friends become critical and exacting.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.