The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the character of seers. You love them because you say, These things were not made, they were seen.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge.

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.