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.

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

The misgovernment of the American people is misgovernment by the American people.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

It is privilege that causes evil in the world, not wickedness, and not men.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.