The New American, Like The New European,

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Had Always Been Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Insane Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards.

I Hate Photographs Abstractly, Because They Have Given Me More Ideas Perversely And Immovably Wrong, Than I Ever Should Get By Imagination.

Laplace Would Have Found It Child's-play To Fix A Ratio Of Progression In Mathematical Science Between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton And Himself

Susceptibility To The Highest Forces Is The Highest Genius.

The President May Indeed In One Respect Resemble The Commander Of An Army In Peace, But In Another And More Essential Sense He Resembles The Commander Of A Ship At Sea. He Must Have A Helm To Grasp, A Course To Steer, A Port To Seek. He Must Sooner Or Later Be Convinced That A Perpetual Calm Is As Little To His Purpose As A Perpetual Hurricane, And That Without Headway The Ship Can Arrive Nowhere.