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

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.

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.

The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.

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

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.