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

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.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

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

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life.

In the one branch he most needed

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.