An Artist's Business Is Only To See.

The Spectacle [of American Politics] Resembles That Of Swarms Of Insects Changing From Worms To Wings. They Must Get The Wings Ordie. For Our Salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright Is Providing Wings. He Will Also Have To Provide A New Insect To Use Them.

In Practice, Such Trifles As Contradictions In Principle Are Easily Set Aside; The Faculty Of Ignoring Them Makes The Practical Man.

We Shall Some Day Catch An Abstract Truth By The Tail, And Then We Shall Have Our Religion And Our Immortality.

People Here Are Quite Struck Aback At Sunday's News Of The Capture Of New Orleans. It Took Them Three Days To Make Up Their Minds To Believe It. The Division Of American Had Become An Idea So Fixed That They Had About Shut Out All The Avenues To The Reception Of Any Other.

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