"Phooey, I say, and again phooey!"

"There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election."

"Whenever human activity is directed exclusively to the service of the instinct for self-preservation it is called theft or usury, robbery or burglary etc"

"To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events."

"The art of reading, as of learning is this: to retain the essential, to forget the non-essential."

"Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population."

"The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential."

"The doom of a nation can be averted only by a storm of flowing passion, but only those who are passionate themselves can arouse passion in others."