By Nature, Man Is Lazy, Working Only

[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.

One Does Every Day And Without A Second Thought, What At Another Time Would Be The Event Of A Year, Perhaps Of A Life.

Everyone Carries His Own Inch Rule Of Taste, And Amuses Himself By Applying It, Triumphantly, Wherever He Travels.

I Think That Lee Should Have Been Hanged. It Was All The Worse That He Was A Good Man And A Fine Character And Acted Conscientiously... It's Always The Good Men Who Do The Most Harm In The World.

History Will Die If Not Irritated. The Only Service I Can Do To My Profession Is To Serve As A Flea.