[T]he basic factor in human affairs is not politics but race

To me the Great War was from the first the White Civil War, which, whatever its outcome, must gravely complicate the course of racial relations.

The ethnic focus of the yellow world has always been China. Since the dawn of history this immense human ganglion has been the centre from which civilization has radiated throughout the Far East.

I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

My object is to collect into a common fold the stray sheep, to find a home for the pariahs of every nation. I do not then hesitate to notice the catchpennies hawked in the public streets, as well as the sumptuous volumes got up for the …

In a very deep sense all human science is but the increment of the power of the eye, and all human art is the increment of the power of the hand.

There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed.