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

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.

A friend in power is a friend lost.

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

To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.