Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

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.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.