Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine; as for the Roman, it is ourselves; and we could walk blindfolded through every chink and cranny of the Greek mind; all these styles seem modern when we come close to them; but the gothic gets away.

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.