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

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

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.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

Friends are born, not made.

Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.

A friend in power is a friend lost.