I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.

Good men do the most harm.

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

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.

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

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.