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.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

The American man is a very simple and cheap mechanism. The American woman I find a complicated and expensive one. Contrasts of feminine types are possible. I am not absolutely sure that there is more than one American man.

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression and that every.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.