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

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such is God's will, and Fate and Evolution--let there be God!

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

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.