Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

The official designs of the Government, especially its designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage, may be described, I think, as the silent ambassad…

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

The militarily-patriotic and the romantic-minded everywhere, and especially the professional military class, refuse to admit for a moment that war may be a tra…

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissanc…

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good wi…