Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

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.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.