The Sensation Of Seeing Extremely Fine Women,

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

[after Viewing The Palace Of Electricity At The 1900 Trocadero Exposition In Paris] [saint-gaudens And Matthew Arnold] Felt A Railway Train As Power; Yet They, And All Other Artists, Constantly Complained That The Power Embodied In A Railway Train Could Never Be Embodied In Art. All The Steam In The World Could Not, Like The Virgin, Build Chartres.

Nothing Is Easier Than To Teach Historical Method, But, When Learned, It Has Little Use.

Whenever A Man Reaches The Top Of The Political Ladder, His Enemies Unite To Pull Him Down. His Friends Become Critical And Exacting.

Throughout Human History The Waste Of Mind Has Been Appalling, And, As This Story Is Meant To Show, Society Has Conspired To Promote It. No Doubt The Teacher Is The Worst Criminal, But The World Stands Behind Him And Drags The Student From His Course.