The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

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

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.