Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

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

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.

Mr Jefferson meant that the American system should be a democracy, and he would rather have let the whole world perish than that this principle, which to him represented all that man was worth, should fail. Mr Hamilton considered democracy a fatal curse, and meant to stop its progress.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

A senator is like a begonia - showy but useless.