It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account.

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.