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.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

Intimates are predestined.

The Virgin filled so enormous a space in the life and thought of the time that one stands now helpless before the mass of testimony to her direct action and constant presence in every moment and form of the illusion which men thought they thought their existence.

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance.