Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It is not due to trade but to intensity of self-seeking, combined with narrowness of occupation.…

Quote by John Jay Chapman

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The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this; that reform consists in taking...

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political...

Too much agreement kills the chat.

Too much agreement kills the chat.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost.

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning...

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

A magazine or a newspaper is a shop. Each is an experiment and represents a...

All progress is experimental.

All progress is experimental.