Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to 'Americanize' him.

A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail. . . . Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says ''mine, mine,'' more fiercely.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.