Politics, As A Practise, Whatever Its Professions,

I Am Not Prepared To Deny Or Assert Any Proposition Which Concerns Myself; But Certainly This Solitary Struggle With Platitudinous Atoms, Called Men And Women By Courtesy, Leads Me To Wish For My Wife Again. How Did I Ever Hit On The Only Woman In The World Who Fits My Cravings And Never Sounds Hollow Anywhere? Social Chemistry-the Mutual Attraction Of Equivalent Human Molecules-is A Science Yet To Be Created, For The Fact Is My Daily Study And Only Satisfaction In Life.

I Would Rather Starve And Rot And Keep The Privilege Of Speaking The Truth As I See It, Than Of Holding All The Offices That Capital Has To Give From The Presidency Down.

The Photograph Is A Coarse Fraud, And Seems To Delight Only In Taking The Whole Beauty Out Of The Picture.

The Proof That A Philosopher Does Not Know What He Is Talking About Is Apt To Sadden His Followers Before It Reacts On Himself.

Thank God, I Never Was Cheerful. I Come From The Happy Stock Of The Mathers, Who, As You Remember, Passed Sweet Mornings Reflecting On The Goodness Of God And The Damnation Of Infants.