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.

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

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.