Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a wide field full of beckonings

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it. It is the same story.

My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to imagine the force and composition of the atom. Physics has not yet found any indivisible matter, or psychology a sensible soul.

My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.