One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea..

Friends are born, not made..

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers..

A period of about twelve years measured the beat of the pendulum. After the Declaration of Independence, twelve years had been needed to create an ef….

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit..

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see..

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else..

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power hou….

Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in….

Morality is a private and costly luxury..

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems..

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous..

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination..

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this….

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity..

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may b….

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

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to hav….

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money..

I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well..