[After viewing the Palace of Electricity at the 1900 Trocadero Exposition in Paris] [Saint-Gaudens and Matthew Arnold] felt a railway train as power;….

The whole fabric of society will go to wrack if we really lay hands of reform on our rotten institutions. From top to bottom the whole system is a fr….

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds..

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much….

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless..

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I ta….

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own..

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in differen….

The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are ….

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of….

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts..

Intimates are predestined..

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself..

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts..

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself..

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick..

A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame..

As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness or unfitness of n….

The less a tourist knows, the fewer mistakes he need make, for he will not expect himself to explain ignorance..

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evid….

Education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by….