After All, For Mankind As A Whole

Any Intelligent Fool Can Invent Further Complications, But It Takes A Genius To Retain, Or Recapture, Simplicity.

Our Ordinary Mind Always Tries To Persuade Us That We Are Nothing But Acorns And That Our Greatest Happiness Will Be To Become Bigger, Fatter, Shinier Acorns; But That Is Of Interest Only To Pigs. Our Faith Gives Us Knowledge Of Something Better: That We Can Become Oak Trees.

Few Can Contemplate Without A Sense Of Exhilaration The Splendid Achievements Of Practical Energy And Technical Skill, Which, From The Latter Part Of The Seventeenth Century, Were Transforming The Face Of Material Civilization, And Of Which England Was The Daring, If Not Too Scrupulous, Pioneer.

There Are Three Things Healthy People Most Need To Do - To Be Creatively Productive, To Render Service, And To Act In Accordance With Their Moral Impulses. In All Three Respects Modern Society Frustrates Most People Most Of The Time.

If, However, Economic Ambitions Are Good Servants, They Are Bad Masters