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.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.