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.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.