They Know Enough Who Know How To

The American Man Is A Very Simple And Cheap Mechanism. The American Woman I Find A Complicated And Expensive One. Contrasts Of Feminine Types Are Possible. I Am Not Absolutely Sure That There Is More Than One American Man.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Has Been Always Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Indecent Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards; But Also Because No Mind Is So Well Balanced As To Bear The Strain Of Seizing Unlimited Force Without Habit Or Knowledge Of It; And Finding It Disputed With Him By Hungry Packs Of Wolves And Hounds Whose Lives Depend On Snatching The Carion.

By Nature, Man Is Lazy, Working Only Under Compulsion; And When He Is Strong We Will Always Live, As Far As He Can, Upon The Labor Or The Property Of The Weak.

Man Loves Most That Which Is His Own.

There Have Been Times When The Church Seemed Afraid, But She Is No Longer. Analyze, Dissect, Use Your Microscope Or Your Spectrum Till The Last Atom Of Matter Is Reached; Reflect And Refine Till The Last Element Of Thought Is Made Clear; The Church Now Knows With The Certainty Of Science What She Once Knew Only By The Certainty Of Faith, That You Will Find Enthroned Behind All Thought And Matter Only One Central Idea--that Idea Which The Church Has Never Ceased To Embody--i Am!