To my fancy, one looks back on life, it has only two responsibilities, which include all the others: one is the bringing of new life into existence; the other, educating it after it is brought in. All betrayals of trust result from these original sins.

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.

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.

If Thought is capable of being classed with Electricity, or Will with chemical affinity, as a mode of motion, it seems necessary to fall at once under the second law of thermodynamics as one of the energies which most easily degrades itself, and, if not carefully guarded, returns bodily to the cheaper form called Heat. Of all possible theories, this is likely to prove the most fatal to Professors of History.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

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.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.