"The Proverbs of Solomon" were a guide to me from my earliest youth, ever
teaching me to think correctly.  Yet these are available in every King
James Bible, so I will not bother to repeat them here.  Instead I will
reserve this space for other wisdom I have managed to gather over the
years:

Crime is not the outcome of free will, but rather a natural phenomenon
which can only disappear or diminish when its natural factors are
eliminated. --ENRICO FERRI, "Criminal Sociology."

Those who represent themselves as born to ill luck can usually trace the
ill luck to errors or shortcomings of their own. --HORATIO ALGER, JR.,
"DRIVEN FROM HOME, OR CARL CRAWFORD'S EXPERIENCE."

DOWN WITH THE CITIES! by Nakashima Tadashi:

If we do not get rid of the cities, the human race will disappear from the
face of the Earth.

If urbanization continues in this manner, the entire surface of the Earth
will in time be covered with cities.

I suppose no boy of twenty really loves a WOMAN, but loves only his
etherealised extract of woman, entirely free from earthy adulteration.
--RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, "THE QUEST OF THE GOLDEN GIRL."

Anybody who promises you health by buying a certain product is a quack.
--Dr.  Erny Portner of Honolulu.

Although we cannot all be writers, we all want to be critics. --Dr.
Martin Luther, "A treatise on Good Works," 1520.

HERETICS, by Gilbert K.  Chesterton:

Never has there been so little discussion about the nature of men as now,
when, for the first time, any one can discuss it.  The old restriction
meant that only the orthodox were allowed to discuss religion.  Modern
liberty means that nobody is allowed to discuss it.  Good taste, the last
and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all
the rest have failed.

the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of
the universe.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

they thought of the end like men, not of the process like paralytics.

our modern educationists are trying to bring about a religious liberty
without attempting to settle what is religion or what is liberty.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only
thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The military man gains the civil power in proportion as the civilian loses
the military virtues.

we have effected simultaneously the deterioration of the man and the
fantastic perfection of the arms.

The modern army is not a miracle of courage; it has not enough
opportunities, owing to the cowardice of everybody else.  But it is really
a miracle of organization.

Millions of mild black-coated men call themselves sane and sensible merely
because they always catch the fashionable insanity, because they are
hurried into madness after madness by the maelstrom of the world.

every instant of conscious life is an unimaginable prodigy.

the thing which is valuable and lovable in our eyes is man--the old
beer-drinking, creed-making, fighting, failing, sensual, respectable man.
And the things that have been founded on this creature immortally remain;
the things that have been founded on the fancy of the Superman have died
with the dying civilizations which alone have given them birth.

It is the humble man who does the big things.

What has health to do with care?  Health has to do with carelessness.

The one defect in his splendid mental equipment is that he does not
sufficiently allow for the stuff or material of men.

a permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having
a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment.

Unless you are going deliberately to prevent a thing being good, you
cannot prevent it being worth fighting for.

even in the act of saying that things change, we say that there is
something unchangeable.

The strong cannot be brave.  Only the weak can be brave.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he
is a man so strong that he feels more.

(Devin note: In the above, "feels" means "suffers", or "hurts".)

when Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, "be hard," he is
really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, "be dead."

Sensibility is the definition of life.

The strong old literature is all in praise of the weak.

this defiance of the statu quo, this constant effort to alter the existing
balance, this premature challenge to the powerful, is the whole nature and
inmost secret of the psychological adventure which is called man.  It is
his strength to disdain strength.

The forlorn hope is not only a real hope, it is the only real hope of
mankind.

All the colours mixed together in purity ought to make a perfect white.
Mixed together on any human paint-box, they make a thing like mud.

while the brutes have all the useful things, the things that are truly
human are the useless ones.

A man who has faith must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a
fool.

It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his
convictions when he is not even ready to wear a wreath round his head for
them.

The absence from modern life of both the higher and lower forms of faith
is largely due to a divorce from nature and the trees and clouds.

Man cannot love mortal things.  He can only love immortal things for an
instant.

if we are to be truly gay, we must believe that there is some eternal
gaiety in the nature of things.

Ultimately a man cannot rejoice in anything except the nature of things.

he who wishes to be strong must despise the strong.

When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self
to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its
best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to
anything.  At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened
creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there.

Every man makes his contribution negative under the erroneous impression
that the next man's contribution is positive.

a man cannot enjoy himself and continue to enjoy anything else.

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for
hall-porters.

When a wealthy nation like the English discovers the perfectly patent fact
that it is making a ludicrous mess of the government of a poorer nation
like the Irish, it pauses for a moment in consternation, and then begins
to talk about Celts and Teutons.

Thus in all extensive and highly civilized societies groups come into
existence founded upon what is called sympathy, and shut out the real
world more sharply than the gates of a monastery.  There is nothing really
narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

A big society exists in order to form cliques.  A big society is a society
for the promotion of narrowness.  It is a machinery for the purpose of
guarding the solitary and sensitive individual from all experience of the
bitter and bracing human compromises.  Sociability, like all good things,
is full of discomforts, dangers, and renunciations.

If we were to-morrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we
should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have
ever known.  And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to
escape from the street in which he lives.

He is forced to flee, in short, from the too stimulating society of his
equals--of free men, perverse, personal, deliberately different from
himself.

Every man has hated mankind when he was less than a man.

The men and women who, for good reasons and bad, revolt against the
family, are, for good reasons and bad, simply revolting against mankind.

Sarah wishes to find a world wholly consisting of private theatricals;
George wishes to think the Trocadero a cosmos.  I do not say, for a
moment, that the flight to this narrower life may not be the right thing
for the individual, any more than I say the same thing about flight into a
monastery.  But I do say that anything is bad and artificial which tends
to make these people succumb to the strange delusion that they are
stepping into a world which is actually larger and more varied than their
own.

So long as you have groups of men chosen rationally, you have some special
or sectarian atmosphere.  It is when you have groups of men chosen
irrationally that you have men.

The thing which keeps life romantic and full of fiery possibilities is the
existence of these great plain limitations which force all of us to meet
the things we do not like or do not expect.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us
the truth about its author.  It does much more than that, it tells us the
truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more
the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture.  The more
dishonest a book is as a book the more honest it is as a public document.

For a hearty laugh it is necessary to have touched the heart.

About what other subjects can one make jokes except serious subjects?

Democracy is not founded on pity for the common man; democracy is founded
on reverence for the common man, or, if you will, even on fear of him.

Men trust an ordinary man because they trust themselves.  But men trust a
great man because they do not trust themselves.  And hence the worship of
great men always appears in times of weakness and cowardice; we never hear
of great men until the time when all other men are small.

the thing which is really required for the proper working of democracy is
not merely the democratic system, or even the democratic philosophy, but
the democratic emotion.

It is a sufficient proof that we are not an essentially democratic state
that we are always wondering what we shall do with the poor.  If we were
democrats, we should be wondering what the poor will do with us.

There is no more need to study the psychology of poverty than to study the
psychology of bad temper, or the psychology of vanity, or the psychology
of animal spirits.  A man ought to know something of the emotions of an
insulted man, not by being insulted, but simply by being a man.  And he
ought to know something of the emotions of a poor man, not by being poor,
but simply by being a man.  Therefore, in any writer who is describing
poverty, my first objection to him will be that he has studied his
subject.  A democrat would have imagined it.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough
to wish to be a philosopher.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no
convictions at all.

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are least dangerous is the
man of ideas.

Ideas are dangerous, but the man to whom they are most dangerous is the
man of no ideas.

Even if we think religion insoluble, we cannot think it irrelevant.  Even
if we ourselves have no view of the ultimate verities, we must feel that
wherever such a view exists in a man it must be more important than
anything else in him.

We have a right to distrust a man who is in a different kind of
municipality; but we have no right to mistrust a man who is in a different
kind of cosmos.  This sort of enlightenment is surely about the most
unenlightened that it is possible to imagine.  To recur to the phrase
which I employed earlier, this is tantamount to saying that everything is
important with the exception of everything.  Religion is exactly the thing
which cannot be left out-- because it includes everything.

We have a general view of existence, whether we like it or not; it alters
or, to speak more accurately, it creates and involves everything we say or
do, whether we like it or not.  Every man in the street must hold a
metaphysical system, and hold it firmly.  The possibility is that he may
have held it so firmly and so long as to have forgotten all about its
existence.

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they
do not even know that they are dogmas.

The dogmas we really hold are far more fantastic, and, perhaps, far more
beautiful than we think.

There are no rationalists.  We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.

End "HERETICS", by Gilbert K.  Chesterton.

Juan de Luna:

He'll turn as red as a maiden who is caught doing it by candlelight.

I smiled at him more than a cat at a tripe stand.

I made him more promises than a sailor in a storm.

Manon Lescaut, by the Abbe Prevost:

love, though it often deludes, never holds out other than hopes of bliss
and joy, whilst religion exacts from her votaries mortification and
sorrow.

It is an inherent principle in our nature that our felicity consists only
in pleasure.

the false and fantastic notions of dignity, which have raised me up an
enemy in my own father.

Any nation that expects to be ignorant and expects to be free expects what
never will be. --Thomas Jefferson.

arcanum, n., pl.  -na or -nums.  1 A profound secret; mystery.  2 the
reputed great secret of nature that alchemists sought to find.  3 An
elixir.  Lat.  arcanus, secret.  ^see arcane.

Catriona, by Robert Louis Stevenson:

He that will not when he may, When he will  he shall have nay.

Never ASK womenfolk.  They're bound to answer 'No'; God never made the
lass that could resist the temptation.  It's supposed by divines to be the
curse of Eve:

because she did not say it when the devil offered  her the apple, her
daughters can say nothing else."

There is not anything more bitter than to lose a fancied friend."

There's just the two sets of  them - them that would sell their coats for
ye, and them that never  look the road ye're on.  That's a' that there is
to women; ...

Essays of Travel, by Robert Louis Stevenson:

Culture is not measured by the  greatness of the field which is covered by
our knowledge, but by the  nicety with which we can perceive relations in
that field, whether  great or small.

It is not by  a man's purse, but by his character that he is rich or poor.

They think only to argue, not to reach new conclusions, ...

Ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
--Jacob Bernowsky.

In mathematics you don't understand things:

you just get used to them. --John Von Noiman.

Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it. --Niels
Bohr.

John G.  Kramer:

Our brains run on the hairy edge of instability, which is why there are so
many humans with mental problems and why so many smart people have
emotional stability problems.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. --Carl Sagan.

MEMOIRS OF EXTRAORDINARY POPULAR DELUSIONS, by CHARLES MACKAY:

(Men) go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and
one by one.

When religion teaches men to go astray, they go far astray indeed!

PRESTER JOHN, by John Buchan:

He can see the first stage of a thing, and maybe the second, but no more.
That is the native mind.

What have ye gained from the white man?  A bastard civilization which has
sapped your manhood; a false religion which would rivet on you the chains
of the slave.  Ye, the old masters of the land, are now the servants of
the oppressor.

I knew then the meaning of the white man's duty.  He has to take all
risks, recking nothing of his life or his fortunes, and well content to
find his reward in the fulfilment of his task.  That is the difference
between white and black, the gift of responsibility, the power of being in
a little way a king; and so long as we know this and practise it, we will
rule not in Africa alone but wherever there are dark men who live only for
the day and their own bellies.  ...  in the towns, where men sit in
offices and see the world through a mist of papers.

ARIZONA SKETCHES, by Joseph A.  Munk:

We believe that we can benefit them, which is doubtless true, but might
they not also teach us some useful lessons?  It would sometimes be more to
our credit if we were less anxious to teach others, and more willing to
learn ourselves.

You Samoans may fight, you may conquer twenty times, and thirty times, and
all will be in vain.  There is but one way to defend Samoa.  Hear it,
before it is too late.  It is to make roads and gardens, and care for your
trees, and sell their produce wisely; and, in one word, to occupy and use
your country.  If you do not, others will.  .  .  . --Robert Louis
Stevenson.

...every man is not only himself; there have been many Diogenes, and as
many Timons, though but few of that name; men are lived over again; the
world is now as it was in ages past; there was none then, but there hath
been some one since, that parallels him, and is, as it were, his revived
self.

(It is amazing that this very individuality and personal freedom, which so
horrified our forbears, should turn out to be precisely what they needed
most of all.  But have we really learned anything at all?  Aren't people
now horrified in precisely the same way at the prospect of a disintegrated
Yugoslavia or "Republic of Indonesia?" --Joe)

...this, I think, is no vulgar part of faith, to believe a thing not only
above, but contrary to, reason, and against the arguments of our proper
senses.

(and THIS, methinks, is precisely what our stupid forebears always wanted
us to do. --Joe)

...for my part, I have ever be- lieved, and do now know, that there are
witches.

When I met him in Honolulu, Mapa Maleta, who had lived both naked and half
naked in the open high country of Sulawesi, wore a jacket in the hot
midday sun for fear of the wind getting into him, and, with his warm
jacket about him, would not spend more than five minutes on Waikiki Beach
because it was too hot for his taste. --Joe Devin.

The Bible In Spain, by George Borrow:

The Moors of Barbary seem to care but little for the exploits of their
ancestors: their minds are centred in the things of the present day, and
only so far as those things regard themselves individually.  Disinterested
enthusiasm, that truly distinguishing mark of a noble mind, and admiration
for what is great, good, and grand, they appear to be totally incapable of
feeling.  It is astonishing with what indifference they stray amongst the
relics of ancient Moorish grandeur in Spain.  No feelings of exultation
seem to be excited by the proof of what the Moor once was, nor of regret
at the consciousness of what he now is.  More interesting to them are
their perfumes, their papouches, their dates, and their silks of Fez and
Maraks, to dispose of which they visit Andalusia; and yet the generality
of these men are far from being ignorant, and have both heard and read of
what was passing in Spain in the old time.  Cabrera, moreover, was a
dastardly wretch, whose limited mind was incapable of harbouring a single
conception approaching to grandeur; whose heroic deeds were confined to
cutting down defenceless men, and to forcing and disembowelling unhappy
women; and yet I have seen this wretched fellow termed by French journals
(Carlist of course) the young, the heroic general.

To think nothing of symmetry and much of convenience; never to remove an
anomaly merely because it is an anomaly; never to innovate except when
some grievance is felt; never to innovate except so far as to get rid of
the grievance; never to lay down any proposition of wider extent than the
particular case for which it is necessary to provide; these are the rules
which have, from the age of John to the age of Victoria, generally guided
the deliberations of our two hundred and fifty Parliaments. --Macaulay on
the constitution of England.

Ideas are only formed in their natural and normal surroundings; the
promotion of the growth is effected by the innumerable impressions
appealing to the senses which a young man receives daily in the workshop,
the mine, the law court, the study, the builder's yard, the hospital; at
the sight of tools, materials, and operations; in the presence of
customers, workers, and labour, of work well or ill done, costly or
lucrative.  In such a way are obtained those trifling perceptions of
detail of the eyes, the ear, the hands, and even the sense of smell,
which, picked up involuntarily, and silently elaborated, take shape within
the learner, and suggest to him sooner or later this or that new
combination, simplification, economy, improvement, or invention.  The
young Frenchman is deprived, and precisely at the age when they are most
fruitful, of all these precious contacts, of all these indispensable
elements of assimilation.  For seven or eight years on end he is shut up
in a school, and is cut off from that direct personal experience which
would give him a keen and exact notion of men and things and of the
various ways of handling them. --M.  Taine.  ...the absence of passion
might easily be mistaken for the strength of reason.--Edward Gibbon, Esq.
Out of these infant peoples come the oldest voices of the earth. --Maxim
Gorky.

The spirit of analysis, that untiring Satan who continually questions and
denies, must sooner or later look for proof of religious dogmas. --P.  J.
PROUDHON.

Gain the affection of the people, and you gain empire.  Lose the affection
of the people, and you lose empire. --Confucius.

He admitted that the command was disputed inside the fort, but no stranger
must approach. --A.  Sorel.

In war more than at any other time there is no better inspiring force than
hatred; it was hatred that made Blucher victorious over Napoleon.  Analyse
the most wonderful manoeuvres, the most decisive operations, and if they
are not the work of an exceptional man, a Frederick or a Napoleon, you
will find they are inspired by passion more than by calculation.
--Commandant Colin.

Man is a being naturally good, loving justice and order. --Rousseau.

In reality we are continuing an action which was imperiously imposed upon
our savage ancestors by the harsh necessities of existence, during which
they had either to kill or die of hunger, while to- day there is no longer
any legitimate excuse for it.  ...  The gentlest and prettiest creatures,
the song-birds, the charm of our springtime, fall to our guns or are
choked in our snares, and not a shudder of pity troubles our pleasure at
seeing them terrified, bleeding, writhing in the horrible suffering we
inflict on them, seeking to flee on their poor broken paws or desperately
beating their wings, which can no longer support them. --Cunisset-Carnot.
The true method of government is to employ the aristocracy, but under the
forms of democracy.--Napoleon Bonaparte.

Given the present constitution of the world, they must cultivate in their
children the military ideal, and accept gracefully the cost and trouble
which militarism entails, or they will be let in for a cruel struggle for
life with a rival worker of whose success there is not the slightest
doubt.  There is only one means of refusing Asiatics the right to
emigrate, to lower wages by competition, and to live in our midst, and
that is the sword.  If Americans and Europeans forget that their
privileged position is held only by force of arms, Asia will soon have
taken her revenge.  -General Hamilton, ex- military attache to the
Japanese army.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
--Daniel Defoe.

It is never too late to be wise. --Daniel Defoe.

the expectation of evil is more bitter than the suffering, especially if
there is no room to shake off that expectation or those apprehensions.
--Daniel defoe.

There are some secret springs in the affections which, when they  are set
a-going by some object in view, or, though not in view, yet  rendered
present to the mind by the power of imagination, that  motion carries out
the soul, by its impetuosity, to such violent,  eager embracings of the
object, that the absence of it is  insupportable. --Daniel Defoe.

I was as happy in not  knowing my danger as if I had never really been
exposed to it. --Daniel Defoe.

How infinitely good that Providence is,  which has provided, in its
government of mankind, such narrow  bounds to his sight and knowledge of
things; and though he walks in  the midst of so many thousand dangers, the
sight of which, if  discovered to him, would distract his mind and sink
his spirits, he  is kept serene and calm, by having the events of things
hid from  his eyes, and knowing nothing of the dangers which surround him.
--Daniel Defoe.

The Crossing, by Winston Churchill (the author, and not the politician):

A poem is not a poem unless it be well spoken.

I hope our happy form of government is to be perpetual.  But, if it is to
be preserved, it must be by the practice of virtue, by justice, by
moderation, by magnanimity, by greatness of soul, by keeping a watchful
and steady eye on the Executive; and, above all, by holding to a strict
accountability the military branch of the public force. --Henry Clay (On
the Seminole War).

Progress is ever the result of slow and ceaseless labour. --HENDRIK VAN
LOON, PH.D, in "The Story of Mankind."

The way to be comfortable is to make others comfortable.  The way to make
others comfortable is to appear to love them.  The way to appear to love
them is to love them in reality. --Bill Jeremy Bentham, 1831.

PROPOSED ROADS TO FREEDOM, BY BERTRAND RUSSELL:

The more unfortunate sections of the population have been ignorant,
apathetic from excess of toil and weariness, timorous through the imminent
danger of immediate punishment by the holders of power, and morally
unreliable owing to the loss of self-respect resulting from their
degradation.

The impatient idealist--and without some impatience a man will hardly
prove effective--is almost sure to be led into hatred by the oppositions
and disappointments which he encounters in his endeavors to bring
happiness to the world.

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery?  Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course
others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, Or GIVE ME DEATH!
--Patrick Henry.

Thomas Jefferson:

Compulsion makes hypocrites, not converts.

Truth stands by itself; error alone needs the support of government.

The Essential Principles of Government:

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion,
religious or political.

peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.

the support of the state governments in all their rights, as the most
competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest
bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies.

the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional
vigor, as the sheet-anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad.

a jealous care of the right of election by the people.

a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of
revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided.

absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital
principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital
principle and immediate parent of despotism.

a well- disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first
moments of war, till regulars may relieve them.

the supremacy of the civil over the military authority.

economy in the public expenditure, that labor may be lightly burdened.

the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public
faith.

encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaiden.

the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of
the public reason.

freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person, under
the protection of the Habeas Corpus.

trial by juries impartially selected.

These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us,
and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.  The
wisdom of our sages and the blood of our heroes have been devoted to their
attainment.  They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of
civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we
trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let
us hasten to retrace our steps and regain the road which alone leads to
peace, liberty, and safety.

The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves that we are underlings.
--Cassius.

To part is the unavoidable fate of the traveller. --Madame Ida Pfeiffer,
A Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North.

Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham (1852-1936), A Vanished Arcadia:

The best right that a man can have is to be happy after the way that
pleases him the most.

all they worked for lost (as happens usually with the efforts of
disinterested men).

Nothing is bad enough for those who dare to speak the truth.

the hard tropical enamel of green foliage, on which time has no lien, and
but the arts of all-destroying man are able to deface.

the non-judicial and uncritical public which takes all upon trust?

reformers of all sorts have not infrequently in times of scarcity and
danger been taken by their proteges for the authors of their trials and
stoned, whilst the smug Government which caused the ruin, well bolstered
up in the affection of its "taxables" chuckled, serenely confident in the
unending folly of mankind.

they show that capacity for action which is a sure bar to advancement
either in Church or State.

No matter whether a man make his career with Indians in the wilds of
Paraguay or amongst the so-called reasoning people in more sophisticated
lands, if he once show himself superior to the ordinary run of men, there
is something of an invidious character certain to be attributed to him by
those who think that genius is the worst attribute that man can have.

Courage and prudence and inalterable kindness are the three virtues which
have most moved the world.

As a general rule, the Indian (unlike the negro) cares little for dogma,
but places his belief entirely in good works.

A calumny is hard to kill; mankind in general cherish it; they never let
it die, and, if it languishes, resuscitate it under another form; they
hold to it in evil and in good repute, so that, once fairly rooted, it
goes on growing like a forest-tree throughout the centuries.

An introduction to new and grand objects of Nature enlarges the human
mind. --Humboldt.

If we know what is good, we shall incline to do it. --Zeno.

The solid content of a sphere is two-thirds that of its circumscribing
cylinder. --Archimedes.

John William Draper, History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science:
On a country to which in its political extremity the indigenous gods have
been found unable to give any protection, a change of faith is impending.

The Museum of Alexandria was thus the birthplace of modern science.

Paradise will be found in the shadow of the crossing of swords.
--Mohammed.

A nation may recover the confiscation of its provinces, the confiscation
of its wealth; it may survive the imposition of enormous war-fines; but it
never can recover from that most frightful of all war-acts, the
confiscation of its women.

IN the course of my long life, I have often observed that men are more
like the times they live in than they are like their fathers. --Khalif Ali
(son-in-law of Mohammed).

Though the personal, the bodily lineaments of a man may indicate his
parentage, the constitution of his mind, and therefore the direction of
his thoughts, is determined by the environment in which he lives.

The elect of God, his best and most useful servants, are they whose lives
are devoted to the improvement of their rational faculties.  The teachers
of wisdom are the true luminaries and legislators of this world, which,
without their aid, would again sink into ignorance and barbarism. --Khalif
Al-Mamun.

Civilization cannot exist without writing, or the means of record in some
shape.

By increasing the rapidity of the diffusion of ideas, and insuring their
permanence, (printing) tends to promote civilization and to unify the
human race.

Throughout the Mohammedan dominions in Asia, in Africa, and in Spain, the
lower order of Mussulmen entertained a fanatical hatred against learning.

All religions are false, although all are probably useful. --Averroes?

For Science the criterion of truth is to be found in the revelations of
Nature: for the Protestant, it is in the Scriptures; for the Catholic, in
an infallible Pope.

The two rival divisions of the Christian Church-- Protestant and
Catholic--were thus in accord on one point: to tolerate no science except
such as they considered to be agreeable to the Scriptures.

One eternal and immutable law embraces all things and all times. --Cicero.

If the resistances (factors that render human life difficult) become
inappreciable, the generative force will double a population in
twenty-five years.

Public celibacy is private wickedness.

Whenever a question arose, they (the Europeans) were skillfully taken in
detail (by the Church of Rome), and commonly mastered.

Toleration, except when extorted by fear, can only come from those who are
capable of entertaining and respecting other opinions than their own.  It
can therefore only come from philosophy.

Fanaticism is stimulated by religion, and neutralized or eradicated by
philosophy.

Science refuses to accept, unless accompanied by proof, the dicta of any
master, no matter how eminent or honored his name. --Paraphrase by Joe
Devin.

In physical inquiries, science tests the value of a hypothesis by using it
to perform computations for various special cases, and then determining
whether the predicted results agree with observation.  If they do not, the
hypothesis is rejected. --Devin.

Science insists upon agreement between calculation and observation, and
correspondence between reasoning and fact. --Devin.

Mathematics furnishes a means of predicting what has been hitherto
unobserved. --Devin.

The germ of algebra may be discerned in the works of Diophantus of
Alexandria, who is supposed to have lived in the second century of our
era.

To what remained of the mathematics of the Alexandrian School, the Arabs
carefully added improvements obtained in India, and communicated to the
subject a certain consistency and form.  The knowledge of algebra, as they
possessed it, was first brought into Italy about the beginning of the
thirteenth century. --Devin paraphrase.

The investigation of principles is quickly followed by practical
inventions.

Poverty is the greatest source of crime and the greatest obstruction to
knowledge. --Devin paraphrase.

The pursuit of riches by commerce is far better than the acquisition of
power by war.

Ignorance is the mother of devotion, but knowledge is power. --Devin
paraphrase.

Mysteries must give place to facts.

***** End John William Draper.

Superior strength is in the highest degree dangerous to the moral fiber of
its possessors. --Devin paraphrase.

Emigrants came in greater numbers to the country, and, spreading over its
surface, formed in the increasing population the most effectual barrier
against the rightful owners of the soil.

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, By David Livingstone:

It is far easier to travel than to write about it.

Those laws which still prevent free commercial intercourse among the
civilized nations seem to be nothing else but the remains of our own
heathenism.

Firearms render wars less frequent and less bloody.

no permanent elevation of a people can be effected without commerce.

Like all other restrictions on trade, the law of preventing friendly
tribes from purchasing arms and ammunition only injures the men who
enforce it.

The Cape government, as already observed, in order to gratify a company of
independent Boers, whose well-known predilection for the practice of
slavery caused them to stipulate that a number of peaceable, honest tribes
should be kept defenseless, agreed to allow free trade in arms and
ammunition to the Boers, and prevent the same trade to the Bechuanas.

So far from this science having any tendency to make men undervalue the
power or love of God, it leads to the probability that the exhibition of
mercy we have in the gift of his Son may possibly not be the only
manifestation of grace which has taken place in the countless ages during
which works of creation have been going on.

There seems to be a tendency in nature to afford varieties adapted to the
convenience of man.

The officers ought to receive higher pay, if integrity is expected from
them.

After long observation, I came to the conclusion that they are just such a
strange mixture of good and evil as men are every where else.

***** End Livingstone.

Understanding facts is knowledge: understanding what people THINK about
facts is genius. --Devin.

Newton made his discoveries by "intending" his mind in a certain direction
continuously. --Newton?

People of the Dark Ages "intended" their minds towards oriental
ecclesiasticism, and failed to discover anything at all. --Devin.

The constitution bears on its front the marks  of dotage. --Robert Louis
Stevenson.

The  nearest villages have suffered most; they see over the hedge the
lands of their ancestors waving with useless cocoa-palms. --Robert Louis
Stevenson.

The Life of HORATIO LORD NELSON, BY ROBERT SOUTHEY:

"Pity! Pity!" did you say? I shall live, sir, to be envied! and to that
point I shall always direct my course. --Viscount Horatio Nelson.

Their vices were the natural consequences of internal anarchy and foreign
oppression, such as the same causes would produce in any people.

Whenever an officer fails to win the affections of those who are under his
command, he may be assured that the fault is chiefly in himself.

If the service were conducted with undeviating respect to seniority, the
naval and military character would soon be brought down to the dead level
of mediocrity.

The first impulses of the public are generally founded upon just feelings,
but from want of sufficient information must frequently be erroneous.
--Devin paraphrase.

The public are easily misled, and there are always persons ready to
mislead them.

Never begin a defense of your conduct before you are accused of error.
--Devin paraphrase of Captain Ball.

I am fitter to do the action than to describe it. --Horatio Nelson.

The people of this country have no idea of anything but revenge, and to
gain a point would swear ten thousand false oaths. --Thomas Troubridge.

Nelson groaned over the spirit of over-reasoning caution and unreasoning
obedience.

The boldest measures are the safest. --Nelson.

It was Nelson's maxim that to negotiate with effect, force should be at
hand, and in a situation to act.

If anything could be secured by promptitude or resolution, Nelson never
entrusted it to the uncertainties of future developments. --Devin
paraphrase.

None but the brave deserve the fair. --Nelson.

Freedom and independence will bring with them industry and prosperity;and
wherever these are found, arts and letters will flourish, and the
improvement of the human race proceed.

In sea affairs nothing is impossible and nothing improbable. --Nelson.

***** End Life of Nelson.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY, BY ABRAHAM MYERSON:

fatigue alters character.

Mood is the background of the psychic life, upon which depends the
direction of our thoughts, cheerful or otherwise, the vigor of our will
and purpose.

Exceptional individuals aside, the mass of mankind generates its mood
either in the tissues of the body or in the circumstances of life.

A child shows the onset of an illness by a complete change in character.

A child is not born merely to a father and a mother.  He is born to a
group, fiercely and definitely prejudiced in custom, belief and ideal,
with ways of doing, feeling and thinking which it seeks to impose on each
of its new members.  Family, tribe, race and nation all demand of each
accession that he accept their ideals, habits and beliefs on peril of
disapproval and even of punishment.

Man is so constituted that the approval and disapproval of his group mean
more to him even than his life.

Society is threatened at its roots by the present high birth rate of the
low grade and the low birth rate of the high grade.

The aims of a rational society, which we are born a thousand years too
soon to see, would be twofold: to control marriage and birth so that the
number of the unfit would be kept as low as possible, and then to bring
fostering influences to bear on the fit.

In every human being there are potential lines of development far
outnumbering those that can be manifested, and each environment and
tradition calls forth some and suppresses others.  Every man is a garden
planted with all kinds of seeds; tradition and teaching are the gardeners
that allow only certain ones to come to bloom.

The character of no man, as we see or know it, ever expresses in any
complete manner his innate possibilities.

From birth to death the pleasure of reward and praise and the pain of
punishment and blame are immensely powerful human motives.

The typical difficulty of middle age is to remember names, because these
have no real relationship or logical value and must be arbitrarily
remembered.

The typical senile defect is the dropping out of the recent memories,
though the past may be preserved in its entirety.

The IMPRESSIBILITY for memories can in no way be increased except through
the stimulation of interest and a certain heightening of attention through
emotion.  For the man or woman concerned with memory the first point of
importance is to find some value in the fact or thing to be learned.
Before a subject is broached to students the teacher should make clear its
practical and theoretic value to the students.

There are only a few who love knowledge for its own sake, but there are
many who become eager for learning when it is made practical.

The number of associations given to a fact determines to a large extent
its permanence in memory and the power of recalling it.

There are a few kinds of stimuli we are specialized to receive and react
to.  There may be innumerable other kinds of stimuli to which we cannot
react because they do not reach us.  The world for us is a collection of
things that we see, hear, smell, taste and feel, but there may be vast
reaches of things for which we have no avenues of approach,--completely
unimaginable things because our images are built upon our senses.

In youth the state of the organs brings a state of well feeling; in old
age there is a constant feeling of a low balance of energy and mood, and
the person is always on the verge of unpleasant feeling.

Although other brain parts may differ but little, when the cerebrum is
considered, the enormous superiority of the higher over the lower animals
becomes striking. --Devin paraphrase.

Man is probably the only animal to whom the past is a controlling force,
sometimes even an overpowering force.

Whether animals think in anything like the form our thought takes is
another matter.  We are so largely verbal in thought that speech and the
capacity to speak seem intimately related to thought.

Overconcentration is a handicap because it robs one of alertness towards
the new impressions and sources of thought necessary for growth. --Devin
paraphrase.

It is possible that we can think without words, but surely very little
thinking is possible under such circumstances.

Intelligence only becomes intellect when it is able to see the world from
the standpoint of abstract ideas, such as truth, beauty, love, honor,
goodness, evil, justice, race, individual, etc.

The wider one can generalize correctly, the higher the intellect.

The practical man rarely seeks wide generalizations because the truth of
these and their value can only be demonstrated through the course of long
periods of time, during which no good to the individual himself is seen.

But its stupendous value and effects lie in this, that in words not only
do we store up ourselves (could we be self-conscious without words?) and
things, but we are able to interchange ourselves and our things with any
one else in the world who understands our speech and writings.

If the germ plasm is the organ of biological heredity, speech and its
derivatives are the organs of social heredity!

Our thought is usually in a dialogue form with an auditor who listens and
whose applause we desire and whose arguments we meet.

All our triumphs are thought and word products; so, too, are our defeats.

Monotony is one of the most dreaded factors in the life of man.  The
internal resources of most of us are but small; we can furnish excitement
and interest from our own store for but a short time, and there then
ensues an intense yearning for something or somebody that will take up our
attention and give a direction to our thought and action.  Under monotony
the thought turns inward, there is daydreaming and introspection, which
are pleasurable only at certain times for most of us and which grow less
pleasurable as we grow older.

Stabilization of purpose and work are necessary, but a standardization
that stamps out the excitement of variety is a deadly blow to human
happiness.

Great ability expresses itself in a sustained interest; a narrow character
is one with overdeformed, too narrow interest; failure is often the
retention of the childish character of diffuse, involuntary interest.

Interest, like any other form of excitement, needs new stimuli and periods
of relaxation.  People under the driving force of necessity continue at
their work for longer periods of time and more constantly than is
psychologically possible for the maintaining of interest.  So it
disappears, and then fatigue sets in at once,--a fatigue that is increased
by the effort to work and the regret and rebellion at the change.  The
memory seems to suffer and a fear is aroused that "I am losing my memory";
the threat to success brings anguish and often the health becomes
definitely impaired.  Overconcentrated, too long maintenance of interest
brings apathy,--an apathy that cannot be dispelled except by change and
rest.  Here there is wide individual variation from those who need
frequent change and relaxation periods to those who can maintain interest
in a task almost indefinitely.  A hobby, or a secondary object of
interest, is therefore a real necessity to the man or woman battling for a
purpose, whose interest must be sustained.  It acts to relax, to shift the
excitement and to allow something of the feeling of novelty as one
reapproaches the task.

The born teacher is he who knows how to arouse and maintain and direct
interest; the born achiever is the man whose interest, quickly aroused, is
easily maintained and directs effort.  To find the activity that is
natively interesting and yet suited to one's ability is the aim in
vocational guidance.

Interest is the beginning of knowledge, and where it is discouraged
knowledge is discouraged.

A great law of feeling of whatever kind, of whatever elaboration, is this;
it tends to spread from individual to individual and excites whole groups
to the same feeling; tender feeling is contagious, and so is hate.

Self-esteem, self-confidence, hateful to others if in excess or if
obtrusive, is an essential of the leader.  His feeling is extraordinarily
contagious, and the morale of the group is in his keeping.  He must not
show fear, or self-distrust or self-lowering in any way.  He must be
deliberate, but forceful, vigorous, masterful.  If he has doubts, he must
keep them to himself or exhibit them only to one who loves him, who is not
a mere follower.  It is a law of life that the herd follows the unwounded,
confident, egoistic leader and tears to pieces or deserts the one who is
wearying.

Reliance on law is in part an effort to escape the necessity of choosing.

The tragedy of a great founder of religion like Buddha or Christ is that
though he gives out a great pure principle, his followers must have,
demand and evolve a dogmatic religion with fixed ceremonials.

Man, on the whole, does not want to choose; he wants to have the feeling
that he ought to do this or that according to a code laid down by
authority.

Duty may demand a man's life, and that sacrifice seems easier for men to
make than the giving up of power and pelf.  (In the late war it was no
great trouble to pass laws conscripting life; it was impossible to pass
laws conscripting wealth.  It was easier for a man to allow his son to go
to war than to give up his wealth en masse.

Other ages have placed responsibility on the Church, on God and on the
State.  We are commencing to place duty on the individual. --Devin
paraphrase.

This feeling (of energy) is excited by the society of others, by the
herd-feeling, and depressed by long-continued solitude or loneliness.

Hope and courage are in part organic, in part are due to the belief that a
desired goal can be reached.

In the presence of the hopeless it is hard to maintain one's own feeling
of energy and that is why the average man shuns them.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come! --Popular saying.

The difference between the trusting and the suspicious is that one
responds with energy and belief to the manifestations of friendliness in
everybody, and the other has no such inner response to guide his energy
and his actions.

If one wishes to destroy the energy of any one, the best way to do it is
to sow the seeds of doubt.  "Your ideal is a fine one, my friend,
but--isn't it a little sophomoric?" "A nice piece of work, but--who wants
it?" On the other hand, to one obsessed by doubt it may happen that a
whole-hearted endorsement, a resolution of the doubt, brings with it first
relief and then a swing of energy into the channels of action.

Introduce a definite system of rivalry into a school or an office, and you
release energies never manifested before.

Solitary pleasures and satisfactions such as reading, exploring, a row on
the river or a walk in the woods cannot arouse those who can play no game
unless there is competition. --Devin paraphrase.

Early success, unless it brings too high a self-valuation, which is its
great danger, is remarkably valuable in releasing energy, and failure
establishes a precedent that may bring doubt, fear and the attendant
inhibition of energy.  Of course, failure may bring with it caution and a
recasting of plans and thus constitute the most valuable of experiences.
But if it is too great, or if there is lacking a certain fortitude, it may
act as a paralyzer of energy thenceforth.

Every animal that bristles and snarls as it faces a foe is, unconsciously,
attempting to paralyze with fear its opponent, to render it helpless
through the inhibition of action.

The correct response to fear is successful fight or flight--never
paralysis. --Devin.

The energy of fear can cause physical reactions enabling feats that would
ordinarily be impossible. --Devin.

Because fear is highly contagious, the presence of a coward can cause
grave danger during fires in public places or during action in a military
unit.  Panic is disastrous. --Devin paraphrase.

Fear of the bad opinion of others is the most powerful deterrent force in
the world.

Man is the only animal that foresees death and he is the only one to
elaborate ethics and religion.

Morbid attention to health often results in an evil worse than sickness.

In the use of fear as a weapon there is always the danger that it might
change quite readily into the fighting spirit. --Devin paraphrase.

Anger is the backbone of the fighting spirit. --Devin paraphrase.

The world owes its progress to those whose anger, sustained and
intellectualized, becomes the power behind reform.

Anger cannot be eliminated without endangering personality.

When a man (or woman) finds himself continually getting apprehensive and
irritable, then it is the time to ask, "What's the matter with me," and to
get expert opinion on the subject.

The underlying idea underneath courtesy and social regulations is to avoid
anger and humiliation.

With satisfaction of desire, the inhibiting forces come to their own, and
the violence of repentance and disgust may be extreme.

Raising standards in things material cannot increase the happiness or
contentment of the world, for it merely makes men impatient and disgusted
at lesser standards.

We cannot hope to increase happiness through the material improvements of
civilization.

For the most of us youth is the most joyous period because youth finds in
its pleasures a novelty and freshness that tend to disappear with
experience.

Mankind must see clearly in order to rid itself of unnecessary suffering.
Hiding one's head (and brains) in a desert of optimism merely perpetuates
evil, even though one sufferer here and there is deluded into happiness.

To get so "controlled" that one rarely laughs or shows sadness or anger is
to atrophy, to dry up.

In all wit and humor surprise is part of the technique and constitutes
part of the pleasure.

Surprise usually heightens the succeeding feeling, whether of joy, sorrow,
anger, fear, pleasure or pain, or in any form.

Training teaches resources against the unexpected. --Devin paraphrase.

" The cautious in character minimize the number of surprises they may get
by preparing.

The impulsive, who rarely prepare, are always in danger from the
unforeseen.

The tired soldier has lessened resources in wit and courage when
surprised, for fatigue heightens the confusion and numbness of surprise
and decreases the scope of intelligent conduct.

All the world admires vigor, strength, courage and endurance,--and these
in their physical aspects.

Physical courage resides more with the fierce races than with the gentle.

Those who feel themselves superior in strength and energy are much more
apt to be courageous than those who feel themselves inferior.

The impatient are very often those of small purposes and are rarely those
of great achievement.

Impatient of evil, men seek to annihilate it by denying its existence or
by loudly chanting that good thoughts will destroy it.  These are typical
impatient solutions in the sphere of religion.

One meets every day men and women who help injustice and iniquity by their
patience.

Organized wrong and oppression owe their existence mainly to the habitual
patience of the oppressed.

The East, bearing a huge burden of misery and essentially pessimistic,
exhorts patience.  The West, eager and full of hope, is impatient.

To wish much is the first step in acquiring much,--but only the first
step.

It is the disappearance of passion, eagerness and enthusiasm that is the
tragedy of old age and which really constitutes getting old.

In the chemistry of life, passion and enthusiasm arise; sickness, fatigue,
experience and time are their antagonists.

Great purposes are the surest to maintain enthusiasm, little purposes
become flat.

All life seeks, and the more mobile a living thing is the more it seeks.

The strong man always has followers though he be a villain, and in fact
the history of man is to a large extent based on the fact that the strong
man evokes enthusiasm and obedience.

Without credulity there could be no organization of society, no rituals,
no ceremonials, no religions and customs,--but without the questioning
spirit there could be no progress.

The authorities, recognizing that their power lay in unquestioning belief,
have always sanctified it and made the pious, non-skeptical type the ideal
and punished the non-believer with death or ostracism.

There are many who start on their careers with the feeling and belief that
money is a minor value, that to be useful and of service is greater than
to be rich.  But this idealistic ambition in only a few cases stands up
against the strain of life.  Unless money comes, a man cannot marry, or if
he marries, then his wife must do without ease and leisure and pretty
things, and he must live in a second-rate way.  Sooner or later the
idealist feels himself uneasily inferior, and though he may compensate by
achievement or by developing a strong trend towards seclusiveness, more
often he regrets bitterly his idealism and in his heart envies the rich.
For they, ignorant and arrogant, may purchase his services, his brains and
self-sacrifice and buy these ingredients of himself with the air of one
purchasing a machine.  So the idealist finds himself condemned to a meager
life, unless his idealism brings him wealth, and he drifts in spirit away
from the character of his youth.  It is the strain of life, the fear of
old age and sickness, the silent pressure of the deprivations of a man's
beloved ones, the feeling of helplessness in disaster and the silent
envious feeling of inferiority that makes inroads in the ranks of the
idealists so that at twenty there are ten idealists to the one found at
forty.

The world is built up on the sacrifices of the idealists, and eternally it
crucifies them.

The genius to make money may be, and often is, an exploiting type of
ability, a selfishly practical industry, which neither invents nor is of
great service.

The men who now do the basic work in invention and scientific work in
laboratories are poorly paid and only now and then honored.

It is not true that "competition is the life of trade."  Cooperation is
its life.

Competition is the SPUR of trade; its mighty sinews, its strong heart and
stout lungs are cooperative.

If a man specializes in fellowship aims, without learning the secret of
power, he is usually futile and sterile of results.  If a man seeks power
only and disregards fellowship, he is hated and is a tyrant, cruel and
without pity.

The practical seek their own welfare or the welfare of others through
direct means, through exerting the power and the influence that is money
and station.  Rarely do they build for a distant future, and their goal is
in some easily and popularly understood good.

We must be prepared to tear off a mask before we understand the most of
our fellows, for society and all of life is permeated with disguise.

The world yields to superiority such immense tribute that to obtain
recognition as superior becomes a dominant motive.

Whoever preaches force as the first weapon in any struggle is either
deluded as to its value or an enemy of mankind.

" Success is so highly prized and admired that the means of obtaining it
becomes secondary in the eyes of the majority.

The strategist tends to be quite cynical, and his effect on his fellow men
is to increase cynicism and pessimism.

Though a function of intelligence, the power to speak (and write)
convincingly and easily, is not at all related to other phases of
intelligence.

The persuader seeks to discover the obstacles to agreement with him in the
minds of others and to remove or nullify them.

Every good speaker or writer who seeks to reach the mass of people needs
the effect of the great feelings--of patriotism, sympathy and humor--needs
flattery, gross or subtle, makes people laugh or smile or feel kindly
disposed to him before he attempts to get their cooperation.  He must
place himself on their level, be regarded as one of them; fellowship and
the cooperative tendencies must be awakened before logic will have value.

The capacity to understand others and to sway them, to impress them
according to their make-up, is a trait of great importance for success or
failure.

Whether as hunter or fisher or nomad herdsman, man lived in the open air,
slept in caves or in rudely constructed shelters and knew nothing of those
purposes that keep men working from morning till night.

The burden of steadiness in labor is new to the race, and it is only
habit, necessity and social valuation that keeps most men to their wheel.

Put any person of adult age or younger in a room with nothing to do but
think, and you reduce him to abject misery and restlessness.

Loyalty in the inferior may be awakened by many things, but to be
permanent the follower must sooner or later feel himself a part of the
program.  He must have not only duties and responsibilities but benefits,
and he must be given a visible symbol of membership.  A child becomes
loyal when he is given a badge or title, and so do men.  This is the
meaning of uniforms, badges, titles and privileges; they are symbols of
"belonging" and so become symbols of loyalty.

The industrial world revolves around those who resist temptation, who work
faithfully, who give honest measure and seek no unfair advantage.

Controversy is the enemy of truth, and when the fighting spirit is
aroused, candor disappears.

The advance of civilization is marked by the appearance of toleration, the
recognition that belief is a private right, especially as concerns
religion, and that sincerity in belief is more important than the nature
of belief.

The sincere of purpose must always keep his sincerity from wounding too
deeply; he must always be careful and include his own foibles and failings
in his attack, and he must make his efforts witty, so that he may have the
help of laughter.

The expert in human relations is he who can overcome distrust; the genius
in human relations is he who inspires trust.

To the great majority, at least of men, sex desire is almost a hunger, and
unsatisfied it brings about a restlessness and dissatisfaction that enters
into all the mental life.

The effect of too affectionate a home training, too assertive parenthood,
is to dwarf the individuality of the child and make him a sort of
parasite, out of contact with his contemporaries, seclusive and odd.

Humor usually points at the folly and absurdity of other people's conduct,
thought, logic and customs. --Devin paraphrase.

To be entertained, to entertain, to escape from fatigue, monotony,
inhibition, to seek excitement, to while away the time and thus to escape
from failure, regret and sorrow are parts of the life and character of
all.  They who have nothing else but these activities in their lives are
to be pitied, and they are unwise who allow themselves too little
amusement and recreation.

When people ate with their fingers there was little to be disgusted at in
eating; when people need spotless linen and eight or ten forks, knives,
and spoons for a meal, a single disarrangement, a spot on the linen, is
intolerable.  The higher one builds one's needs and tastes, the more
opportunities for disgust, disappointment and discontent.

To the majority, acquisition, the multiplication of needs, desires and
tastes constitute progress and seem to be the roads to happiness.

Desires grow with each acquisition, the capacity for satisfaction
diminishes with every gratification, novelty disappears and with the
growth of taste little disharmonies offend deeply.

The joy of life is in robust tastes not easily offended and easily
gratified.

Faith is beautiful in the abstract, but in the concrete it is often the
origin of superstition and amazing folly.  However crudely intelligence
and honest scientific effort may work, they soar in a heaven far above the
abyss of credulity.

Then there is the strictly modern type of person to whom right conduct is
held to have nothing to do with religious belief and who measures
Christian, Jew, Mohammedan and agnostic by their acts and not at all by
their dogma, and who thus relegates religion, in the ordinary use of the
word, to a rather useless place in human life.

There is no sharp line between the "normal" and "pathological" in
character.

Certain deviations from the normal are useful, as the assemblage of
qualities that make the genius or the reformer of certain types.  Others
are not useful, or at least not useful in the environment and age in which
the deviated person finds himself.

We cannot separate energy display from enthusiasm, courage, intelligence,
persistent purpose, etc.

The fear of death is behind an enormous amount of men's deeds and beliefs.

The average balanced person is apt to weigh consequences to himself, but
the paranoid does not; and so, when accident or circumstances enlist him
in a good cause, he is a fighter without fear and is enormously valuable.

It is characteristic of all paranoid philosophy and schemes that they
despise real experimentation, that they start with some postulate that has
no basis in work done and go on with a minute hyper-logic that deceives
the unsophisticated.

Science has outstripped morals.

***** End THE FOUNDATIONS OF PERSONALITY.

The very sensitiveness that stimulates an artist to work keeps him alive
to suffering. --Samuel Morse.

We are not here to be happy, but to be good. --Fleeming Jenkin.

It's a cold home where a dog is the only representative of a child.
--Fleeming Jenkin.

It is said that at age 12 Thomas Edison proposed to master the whole
collection of the Detroit library shelf by shelf.  He worked his way
through fifteen feet of the bottom one before he began to select his fare.
If he did not understand the problems which have puzzled some of the
greatest minds, he read them religiously, and pressed on.  This indicates
that just by reading, without necessarily understanding anything of what
is read, a man can learn. --Devin.

Men of routine are apt to look with disfavour on men of originality. --J.
Munro, "Heros of the Telegraph."

"Allan Quatermain," by H. Rider Haggard:

It is a depressing conclusion, but in all essentials the savage and the
child of civilization are identical.

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

Man's cleverness is almost indefinite, and stretches like an elastic band,
but human nature is like an iron ring.

Nature as she was in the age when creation was complete, undefiled as yet
by any human sinks of sweltering humanity.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers,
mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all
have their day, and all must go.

Madagascar, which is of course the ancient Ebony Isle of the ARABIAN
NIGHTS.

the meaning is vague, and I doubt if the phrase conveys any very clear
impression to their minds.

beauty, dependent as it is to a certain extent upon the imagination, is
never so beautiful as when it is half hid.

no more dreadful fate can befall a man than to become the tool of an
unscrupulous woman, or indeed of any woman.  There is but one end to it:
when he is broken, or has served her purpose, he is thrown away--turned
out on the world to hunt for his lost self-respect.

It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what
the future will be?

*****End "Allan Quatermain," by H. Rider Haggard.

Light reflected from a hundred facets dissipates itself in space and is
lost; that concentrated in one tremendous ray pierces to the stars.
--Haggard.

A well-organised, well-motivated guerrilla group fighting on a terrain
they know well, with the support of local people, cannot be beaten. The
Americans in Vietnam, British in Northern Ireland, Soviets in Afghanistan,
Portuguese in their African colonies and Indonesians in East Timor have
all experienced that fact of modern military life.  In a guerrilla
campaign, a group can win the war while losing every battle. The
occupation force eventually gets sick of the fighting and goes home.
--Keith Suter, "The Age," Melbourne.

H. Rider Haggard, in "Montezuma's Daughter":

Do not speak ill of the religion of the land, or make a mock of it by your
way of life, lest you should learn how cruel men can be when they think
that it is pleasing to their gods.

What does it matter if the road has been good or bad when we have reached
the goal?

While you live there is hope, but the dead come back no more.

***** End H. Rider Haggard, in "Montezuma's Daughter".

Weakness invites invasion. --Art Bell.

Any demonstration of weakness will invite attack. --Art Bell.

H. Rider Haggard, in "Nada the Lily":

People learned how to die then and not make a noise about it. What does it
matter? They would have been dead now anyway. It does not matter; nothing
matters, except being born. That is a mistake, my father.

Take only a man whom you can love, and be faithful to him alone, for thus
shall a woman find happiness.

The world is a thorny wilderness, my daughter, and its thorns are watered
with a rain of blood, and we wander in our wretchedness like lost
travellers in a mist; nor do I know why our feet are set on this
wandering.

He who cries to kings for justice sometimes finds death.

There are no ghosts there. The ghosts live only in their cowardly hearts.

Bold looks melt the hearts of foes.

It is the bold thrower who oftenest wins.

This, Umslopogaas, is the way of witches, be they of stone or flesh--when
you draw near to them they change their shape.

We think that we can shape our fate, but it is fate that shapes us, and
nothing befalls except fate will it.

All men, white and black, seek that which is beautiful, and when at last
they find it, then it passes swiftly away, or, perchance, it is their
death. For great joy and great beauty are winged, nor will they sojourn
long upon the earth.

She who hides her beauty often seems the loveliest.

Time flies fast when blows fall thick.

***** End H. Rider Haggard, in "Nada the Lily".

Today's map of Africa is an artifact of vanished colonial empires.
--National Geographic.

Colonial powers carved up Africa with little regard to ethnic, religious,
or tribal boundaries. --National Geographic.

The great melting pot of America, the place where we are all made Americans
of (sic), is the public school; where men of every race and of every origin
and of every station of life send their children, or ought to send their
children; and where, being mixed together, they are all infused with the
American spirit, and developed into the American man and the American
woman. --Woodrow Wilson, 1913.

In general, if there is any skill which varies from man to man, then that
skill will be more developed in nations having larger populations, and
therefore greater diversity among its citizens.  Because of this, the
likelihood of any smaller nation beating any larger nation at any game
requiring such a skill is small.  The best hope of smaller nations engaged
in combat with larger nations is therefore to avoid any contest requiring
such skills which the larger nation will be able to perfect by selection
or training, and to focus upon unexpected strategies and methods.  And
since the selecting and developing of skills require time, even equally
matched nations are able to benefit greatly from the surprise application
of new strategies and methods requiring the application of hitherto
undeveloped skills. --C. Devin.

H. Rider Haggard in "Marie":

The future must take care of itself.  We cannot control it, and its events
are not in our hand.

What is it that makes marriage in the sight of God?  It is that male and
female should declare themselves man and wife before all folk, and live as
such.

But what will happen between the storm of the morning and the peace of the
night?

***** End H. Rider Haggard in "Marie".

H. Rider Haggard in "Child of Storm":

I dare say that a time may come when the perfected generations--if
Civilisation, as we understand it, really has a future and any such should
be allowed to enjoy their hour on the World--will look back to us as
crude, half-developed creatures whose only merit was that we handed on the
flame of life.

At one end of the ladder is the ape-man, and at the other, as we hope, the
angel.

In him (the savage), nakedly and forcibly expressed, we see those eternal
principles which direct our human destiny.

When your Watcher (God) sowed my seed (created me)--if thus he did--he
sowed the dreams that are a part of me also, and I shall only bring him
back his own, with the flower and the fruit by way of interest.

By what exact right do we call people like the Zulus savages?

Now, let him who is highly cultured take up a stone to throw at the poor,
untaught Zulu, which I notice the most dissolute and drunken wretch of a
white man is often ready to do, generally because he covets his land, his
labour, or whatever else may be his.

A clever man or woman among the people whom we call savages is in all
essentials very much the same as a clever man or woman anywhere else.

I will have nothing to do with the massacre of women and children, which
must happen in an assault.

It is not wise to confuse natives by giving too many orders.

What a tricky and uncomfortable thing is conscience, that nearly always
begins to trouble us at the moment of, or after, the event, not before,
when it might be of some use.

Truly the paths of violence were profitable!

I did not make these forces, Macumazahn; I did but guide them towards a
great end.

***** End H. Rider Haggard in "Child of Storm".

If a man says truth is relative, then never believe anything else he tells
you without proof. --Joe Devin.
People love to fall back into that comfortable set of lies with which they
are familiar. --Joe.
The trouble with big liars is that they believe in their own lies. --Larry
Fisher.
Stretching the truth is fine--once you have convinced people it is made of
rubber. --Joe Devin.
The United States has a sliding scale of human rights and a sliding scale
of human values. --Amnesty International official speaking about Turkish
state terror.

H. Rider Haggard., in "Finished":

It is the lot of life, Heda, that we should lose what we love.

Zikali was never one to suffer fools.

We know what the white men think, so there is no need to ask Macumazahn to
sing us an old song.

What man is there that a veiled woman does not interest?  Indeed, does not
half the interest of woman lie in the fact that her nature is veiled from
man, in short a mystery which he is always seeking to solve at his peril,
and I might add, never succeeds in solving?

***** End H. Rider Haggard., in "Finished".

The Path of the King, by John Buchan:

The things we call aristocracies and reigning houses are the last places
to look for masterful men. They began strongly, but they have been too
long in possession. They have been cosseted and comforted and the devil
has gone out of their blood.

John Buchan in "The Moon Endureth":

Our most honest convictions are not the children of pure reason, but of
temperament, environment, necessity, and interest.  Most
of us take sides in life and forget the one we reject.

***** End John Buchan in "The Moon Endureth".

The savage (Andaman) Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but
are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance.
--Around the World in 80 Days.

Science finds, industry applies, man conforms. --1933 Chicago World's Fair
slogan.

How can I know the meaning of hopelessness as long as I still have any
glimmer of hope? --Devin.

How can good flow from my being except I be crushed by those things I most
love?  But if I be broken and crushed, then from my being will flow the
purest essence of that humanity which is in me, and I will be able to
create as I have never created before. --Devin.

If I can manage to experience all of these implacable terrors and yet to
remain the child that I was, then I shall have become a truly great man.
--Devin.

If people are willing to perpetrate and suffer the cruelest of physical
mutilations in order to conform to social norms, then it is clear that
they will do the same or worse things to their spirits for the same cause.
Is this not why the bright eyes of children become the dull eyes of
adults? --Devin.

Genius is found among certain peoples at certain times, but madness is the
essential characteristic of all peoples at all times. --Devin.

Beware of convictions, because history says that people can be convinced
to do anything the human mind can imagine. --Devin.

Beware of what you are taught, because history says that the things you
are taught can kill you. --Devin.

The best defense is a good offense. --Vince Lombardi.

The Time Machine, by Herbert George Wells [1898]:

where violence comes but rarely and off-spring are secure, there is less
necessity--indeed there is no necessity--for an efficient family, and the
specialization of the sexes with reference to their children's needs
disappears.

There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial
jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts;
unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage
survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life.

Under the new conditions of perfect comfort and security, that restless
energy that with us is strength would become weakness.

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to
eroticism, and then come languor and decay.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and
trouble.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless.
There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.
Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge
variety of needs and dangers.

***** End The Time Machine.

The tragedy of social interaction is that we are usually judged not by
what we are but by what people like us are commonly expected to be.
--Devin.

We are judged not for the mettle that is in us, but for the mettle that is
absent in our peers. --Devin.

We are judged to be whatever the movies and the newspapers stereotype
people who look like us to be. --Devin.

My primary struggle has always been against the petty bonds my peers have
thrown upon me in the name of religion, nationality, propriety, social
standing, social values, or whatever. --Devin.

A primary preoccupation of two-legged asses is to discover ways of making
others look like asses. --Devin.

Simple people do dote upon complexity and loath simple theorems capable of
collapsing the complex structures they devise. --Devin.

Beauty, when incorrectly cultivated, leads quickly to monkeyhood. --Devin.

Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. --Francis Bacon.

Human beings are their own worst enemies. --(cold fusion) Eugene Malov.

They were not interested in truth.  They were interested in a preconceived
notion. --Eugene Malov.

The present well being of mankind should predominate over religious
considerations in civil affairs and public education. --From an AHD
definition of secularism.

Christianity has yet to prove itself the religion of love; at present it
is the religion of exclusion. --Edna Lyall, in "We Two."

Mark Twain, in "What Is Man?"

No man ever originates anything.  All his thoughts, all his impulses,
come FROM THE OUTSIDE.

A man's brain is so constructed that IT CAN ORIGINATE NOTHING WHATSOEVER.
It can only use material obtained OUTSIDE.  It is merely a machine; and it
works automatically, not by will-power.  IT HAS NO COMMAND OVER ITSELF, ITS
OWNER HAS NO COMMAND OVER IT.

If Shakespeare had been born and bred on a barren and unvisited rock in the
ocean his mighty intellect would have had no OUTSIDE MATERIAL to work with,
and could have invented none; and NO OUTSIDE INFLUENCES, teachings,
moldings, persuasions, inspirations, of a valuable sort, and could have
invented none; and so Shakespeare would have produced nothing.

A man is never anything but what his outside influences have made him.

The only impulse that ever moves a person to do anything is the impulse to
CONTENT HIS OWN SPIRIT and WIN ITS APPROVAL. --Devin paraphrase.

No SINGLE outside influence can make a man do a thing which is at war with
his training.  The most it can do is to start his mind on a new tract and
open it to the reception of NEW influences--as in the case of Ignatius
Loyola.

the mind is independent of the man.

I think the mind is purely a machine, a thoroughly independent machine, an
automatic machine.

If I would leave my mind to its own devices it would find things to think
about without any of my help, and thus convince me that it was a machine,
an automatic machine, set in motion by exterior influences, and as
independent of me as it could be if it were in some one else's skull.

There are none but temporary Truth-Seekers.  A permanent one is a human
impossibility.  As soon as the Seeker finds what he is thoroughly
convinced is the Truth, he seeks no further, but gives the rest of his
days to hunting junk to patch it and caulk it and prop it with, and make
it weather-proof and keep it from caving in on him.  Hence the
Presbyterian remains a Presbyterian, the Mohammedan a Mohammedan, the
Spiritualist a Spiritualist, the Democrat a Democrat, the Republican a
Republican, the Monarchist a Monarchist; and if a humble, earnest, and
sincere Seeker after Truth should find it in the proposition that the moon
is made of green cheese nothing could ever budge him from that position;
for he is nothing but an automatic machine, and must obey the laws of his
construction. --Devin paraphrase.

I think that the rat's mind and the man's mind are the same machine, but
of unequal capacities--like yours and Edison's; like the African pygmy's
and Homer's; like the Bushman's and Bismarck's.

My idea of the meaningless term "instinct" is, that it is merely PETRIFIED
THOUGHT; solidified and made inanimate by habit; thought which was once
alive and awake, but it become unconscious--walks in its sleep, so to
speak.

To me, Man is a machine, made up of many mechanisms, the moral and mental
ones acting automatically in accordance with the impulses of an interior
Master who is built out of born-temperament and an accumulation of
multitudinous outside influences and trainings; a machine whose ONE
function is to secure the spiritual contentment of the Master, be his
desires good or be they evil; a machine whose Will is absolute and must be
obeyed, and always IS obeyed.

Nations do not THINK, they only FEEL. They get their feelings at second
hand through their temperaments, not their brains.  A nation can be
brought-- by force of circumstances, not argument--to reconcile itself to
ANY KIND OF GOVERNMENT OR RELIGION THAT CAN BE DEVISED; in time it will
fit itself to the required conditions; later, it will prefer them and will
fiercely fight for them.

I see no great difference between a man and a watch, except that the man
is conscious and the watch isn't, and the man TRIES to plan things and the
watch doesn't.

No man has a wholly undiseased mind.  In one way or another all men are
mad. --Devin paraphrase.

Many are mad for money.  When this madness is in a mild form it is
harmless and the man passes for sane; but when it develops powerfully and
takes possession of the man, it can make him cheat, rob, and kill; and
when he has got his fortune and lost it again it can land him in the
asylum or the suicide's coffin.

Many are mad for money.  When this madness is in a mild form it is
harmless and the man passes for sane; but when it develops powerfully and
takes possession of the man, it can make him cheat, rob, and kill; and
when he has got his fortune and lost it again it can land him in the
asylum or the suicide's coffin.  Love is a madness; if thwarted it
develops fast; it can grow to a frenzy of despair and make an otherwise
sane and highly gifted prince, like Rudolph, throw away the crown of an
empire and snuff out his own life.  All the whole list of desires,
predilections, aversions, ambitions, passions, cares, griefs, regrets,
remorses, are incipient madness, and ready to grow, spread, and consume,
when the occasion comes.  There are no healthy minds, and nothing saves
any man but accident--the accident of not having his malady put to the
supreme test.  One of the commonest forms of madness is the desire to be
noticed, the pleasure derived from being noticed.  Perhaps it is not
merely common, but universal.  In its mildest form it doubtless is
universal.  Every child is pleased at being noticed; many intolerable
children put in their whole time in distressing and idiotic effort to
attract the attention of visitors; boys are always "showing off";
apparently all men and women are glad and grateful when they find that
they have done a thing which has lifted them for a moment out of obscurity
and caused wondering talk.  This common madness can develop, by nurture,
into a hunger for notoriety in one, for fame in another.  It is this
madness for being noticed and talked about which has invented kingship and
the thousand other dignities, and tricked them out with pretty and showy
fineries; it has made kings pick one another's pockets, scramble for one
another's crowns and estates, slaughter one another's subjects; it has
raised up prize-fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and
big politicians, and big and little charity-founders, and bicycle
champions, and banditti chiefs, and frontier desperadoes, and Napoleons.
Anything to get notoriety; anything to set the village, or the township,
or the city, or the State, or the nation, or the planet shouting,
"Look--there he goes--that is the man!"  And in five minutes' time, at no
cost of brain, or labor, or genius this mangy Italian tramp has beaten
them all, transcended them all, outstripped them all, for in time their
names will perish; but by the friendly help of the insane newspapers and
courts and kings and historians, his is safe and live and thunder in the
world all down the ages as long as human speech shall endure!  Oh, if it
were not so tragic how ludicrous it would be!

In that day (Marion, Missouri, 1845), for a man to speak out openly and
proclaim himself an enemy of negro slavery was simply to proclaim himself
a madman. For he was blaspheming against the holiest thing known to a
Missourian, and could NOT be in his right mind.

It is the atmosphere we are reared in that determines how our inclinations
and aspirations shall tend.

When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from
childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for
that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and
conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast
a doubt upon the validity of that superstition.

Whenever we have been furnished a fetish, and have been taught to believe
in it, and love it and worship it, and refrain from examining it, there is
no evidence, howsoever clear and strong, that can persuade us to withdraw
from it our loyalty and our devotion.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent,
except towards the things which were sacred to other people.

King David of Scotland . . . under color of religion caused his followers
to deal most barbarously with the English.  They ripped open women, tossed
children on the points of spears, butchered priests at the altars, and,
cutting off the heads from the images on crucifixes, placed them on the
bodies of the slain, while in exchange they fixed on the crucifixes the
heads of their victims.  Wherever the Scots came, there was the same scene
of horror and cruelty:  women shrieking, old men lamenting, amid the
groans of the dying and the despair of the living.

But the English got the victory.

Then the chief of the men of Lothian fell, pierced by an arrow, and all
his followers were put to flight.  For the Almighty was offended at them
and their strength was rent like a cobweb.

Offended at them for what?  For committing those fearful butcheries?  No,
for that was the common custom on both sides, and not open to
criticism.
***** End "What Is Man?"

When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that
was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of
revenge. But an Injun! That's a different matter altogether.  --Mark
Twain, in "Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

I find that principles have no real force except when one is well fed.
--Mark Twain, in "Extracts from Adam's Diary."

*****       A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT, by MARK TWAIN:

Arguments have no chance against petrified training; they wear it as
little as the waves wear a cliff.

No people in the world ever did achieve their freedom by goody- goody talk
and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will
succeed must BEGIN in blood, whatever may answer afterward.

Old habit of mind is one of the toughest things to get away from in the
world. It transmits itself like physical form and feature.

For a man in those days to have had an idea that his ancestors hadn't had
would have brought him under suspicion of being illegitimate.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but
the fact remains that where every man in a State has a vote, brutal laws
are impossible.

People long debased by monarchy are poor material for a republic, yet no
nation is ever incapable of self-government, self-government always being
better than the alternative when it is really self-government. --Devin
paraphrase.

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent
multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation
only -- not from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the
nation's intellectual grade was; whether high or low, the bulk of its
ability was in the long ranks of its nameless and its poor, and so it
never saw the day that it had not the material in abundance whereby to
govern itself.

Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best governed
and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best
condition attainable by its people; and that the same is true of kindred
governments of lower grades, all the way down to the lowest.

A man is a man, at bottom. Whole ages of abuse and oppression cannot crush
the manhood clear out of him. Whoever thinks it a mis- take is himself
mistaken. Yes, there is plenty good enough material for a republic in the
most degraded people that ever existed -- even the Russians; plenty of
manhood in them -- even in the Germans -- if one could but force it out of
its timid and suspicious privacy, to overthrow and trample in the mud any
throne that ever was set up and any nobility that ever supported it. We
should see certain things yet, let us hope and believe.

***** End "A Connecticut Yankee"

FROM HIS CRADLE TO HIS GRAVE A MAN NEVER DOES A SINGLE THING WHICH HAS ANY
FIRST AND FOREMOST OBJECT BUT ONE--TO SECURE PEACE OF MIND, SPIRITUAL
COMFORT, FOR HIMSELF.

***** The Vision Splendid, by William M. Raine:

The following are some Devin paraphrases:

The world sees things as being right because these things have come to be
accepted.

Some minds refuse to accept the inevitable conclusions to which their own
processes push them.

There is a courage that comes from intellectual honesty.

Some minds are unable to lie to themselves.

Age alone lends sanctity to the ghosts of dead yesterdays that rule today.

Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal
palms (prizes) must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must
explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of
your own min." --Emerson.

The showier gifts go further than scholarship.

Some know when to defer and when to ride roughshod to the end.

Some have a gift for absorbing new ideas superficially and dressing them up
smartly.

Most of us have mixed motives.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. --Johnson.

James K.'s biggest achievement will always be James K.

He's always sitting to himself for his own portrait.

Respectability is the most damning thing on earth.

A fellow ought to do well whatever he undertakes to do.

Some are not strongly fortified with a sense of humor.

The profs don't like strange, unsettling notions.

If you must have ideas, then soft pedal them.

Be sure to soft pedal your ideas unless they happen to be accepted ones.

A caste system has been growing up in America.

Why poverty at all?

Some men are willing to live in plenty while their brothers are in poverty.
They exploit those weaker than themselves to help them get along.

Some believe that it is not right to set one's opinion up against those who
know better.

Lies need only age to make them respectable. Given that, they become
traditions and are put upon a pedestal. Then the gentlest word for him who
attacks them is traitor.

Great corporations finance the political machinery that permits vice and
corruption in order to secure special priveleges.

Between the American people and an independent press stand the big
advertisers, which promote conservatism, an unfair point of view, and a
slant in both news recording and news interpretation.

A mind not anchored to conventions is forever asking questions and seeking
answers.

Preventable poverty stares at us from all sides.

Our social fabric is thrown together in the most haphazard fashion, without
scientific organization, with the greatest waste, in such a way that
non-producers win all the prizes while the toilers do without.

Art, learning, beauty, and truth ought all to walk hand in hand with our
daily lives; but this is impossible so long as disorder and cruelty and
disease are in the world unnecessarily.

There is no way out of unnecessary disorder, disease, and cruelty which
does not offer an equality of opportunity refused by the whole cruel system
of today.

Individuals are effects of systems.

Some minds move among a group of orthodox and accepted ideas, and always
view every new idea as if it were a time bomb set to go off shortly.  They
not only suspicion new ideas: they actually fear them.

Society wants to go along comfortably without being disturbed by anything
unpleasant or capable of harrowing the feelings.  It wants to hear as
little about the distresses of other people as possible.

All of life's a compromise, a horrible unholy giving up as unpractical all
the best things. It's a denial of love, of Christ, of God.

A man's a slave so long as his means of livelihood is dependent on some
other man.

Men who get on don't question the fundamentals of our social system.

The cure for the evils of Democracy is more Democracy. --De Tocqueville.

Nobody is so blind to the future as practical politicians and business men.

The extremes of virtue and vice find common ground when the blasphemer
raises his voice against intrenched capital.

There's no moral distinction between the man who has paid and the man who
hasn't paid for his sins toward society. There is good and there is bad in
all of us, closely intertwined, knit together into the very warp and woof
of our lives. We're all good and we're all bad.

Let a man bow down to the dead hand of custom and he can never again be
true to what he thinks and knows.

Communities are loaded to the guards with respectable cowards.

The trouble with our whole manmade world is that the game is played with
loaded dice.  The cards have been stacked against the poor, the weak, and
the unfortunate.

A tremendous percentage is in favor of the crook, the scoundrel, the smug
robber of industry by whom the hands are dealt.

Legislatures, Congress, the courts, all the machinery of government, answer
to the crack of the whip wielded by Big Business.

Until we mutiny against the timidity of our times Democracy and Prosperity
will be dreams.

In that new world which is to be MEN and not THINGS will be supreme,
property a means and not an end.

Americans are eager for hero worship.

"Nobody is big enough to kill slander.

Many business men of every community are respectable cowards.

Power is to the strong.

In the money centers one can't respect the rights of one's fellows and win.

People will soon forget how you got money when you have money.

We've got to forge the tools of freedom before we can use them.

Great changes are most easily brought about under the old forms. Men's
minds in the mass move slowly. They can see only a little truth at a time.

The single greatest crime is poverty, beside which all others pale into
insignificance.

Poverty stamps out hope and love and aspiration, all that is fine and true
in life.

The Juggernaut of progress is forever wasting humanity.

There is a kind of slavery that flourishes under the very forms of freedom.
All the product of labor is taken from it except enough to sustain a mere
animal existence.

Given proper conditions, men will rise by lending a hand to the unfortunate
instead of trampling each other down.

The whole social fabric is made up of lies, compromises, injustice. The
only reason it has hung together so long is that people have been trained
to think along certain lines like show animals.

Things improve as men's hearts grow slowly wiser and better.

You can't change men's hearts until you change the conditions under which
they live.

The plain truth is better than the tricks of a demagogue.

The price of any success worth while is paid for in the failure of others.

Men who do a great work for the public are entitled to great rewards.

Some men haven't the slightest respect for law merely as law. When it's on
their side they're a stickler for it.  When it isn't they say nothing, but
brush it aside as if it did not exist. In either case they get what they
want.  In either case, they get what they want.

Results are always more important than any number of theories.

Anybody can throw mud--and some of it is bound to stick.

Our wealthy class has no social consciousness.

He thinks the submerged are lost because they are thriftless and that all
would be right if they wouldn't drink.

I suppose all new ideas are likely to make trouble.

Man bursts the chains that his own hands have made;   Hurls down the blind,
fierce gods that in blind years He fashioned, and a power upon them laid
To bruise his heart and shake his soul with fears. --Edwin Markham.

We make our own poverty.  God and nature have nothing to do with it.

Society cannot change its nature in a day.

We must recognize how interdependent we are and work together for the
common good.

***** end The Vision Splendid, by William M. Raine.

Only the proud can be truly humble, as only the strong may know the
fullness of gentleness. --Jack London in "The Valley of the Moon."

They always played too big a game and missed the thousand little chances
right under their noses. --Devin paraphrase of Jack London.

"Huh! We ain't Chinks. We're white folks. Does a Chink ever want to ride a
horse, hell-bent for election an' havin' a good time of it? Did you ever
see a Chink go swimmin' out through the breakers at Carmel?--or boxin',
wrestlin', runnin' an' jumpin'for the sport of it? Did you ever see a Chink
take a shotgun on his arm, tramp six miles, an' come back happy with one
measly rabbit? What does a Chink do? Work his damned head off. That's all
he's good for. To hell with work, if that's the whole of the game--an' I've
done my share of work, an' I can work alongside of any of 'em. But what's
the good? If they's one thing I've learned solid since you an' me hit the
road, Saxon, it is that work's the least part of life. God!--if it was all
of life I couldn't cut my throat quick enough to get away from it. --Jack
London.

What's the good of life if they ain't no fun? --Jack London.

A man can't fight without a good second to take care of him. --JL.

Melancholy remark made when Einstein faced death: For us believing
physicists, the distinction between the past, the present, and the future
is only an illusion. --Albert Einstein.

Persons who have been subjected to unfairness, maltreatment, and hardship
are not apt to escape developing means of coping such as lying, scheming,
disloyalty, betrayal, stealing, etc., in order to have survived. --Devin.

The Evil Genius, by Wilkie Collins:

Hardened by a life of drudgery, under conditions of perpetual scolding, the
servant stood her ground, and recovered the use of her tongue.

I remember what a life she has led, and I ask myself if any human creature
could have suffered as that girl has suffered without being damaged by it.
Among those damnable people--I beg your pardon, my dear; Mr. Norman
sometimes used strong language, and it breaks out of me now and then--the
good qualities of that unfortunate young person can _not_ have always
resisted the horrid temptations and contaminations about her. Hundreds of
times she must have had deceit forced on her; she must have lied, through
ungovernable fear; she must have been left (at a critical time in her life,
mind!) with no more warning against the insidious advances of the passions
than--than--I'm repeating what Mr. Presty said of a niece of his own, who
went to a bad school at Paris; and I don't quite remember what comparisons
that eloquent man used when he was excited.

In one form or another, the horrid necessity for deceit had followed, and
was still following, that first, worst act of falsehood--the elopement from
Mount Morven.

"The good qualities of that unfortunate young creature" (she had said) "can
_not_ have always resisted the horrid temptations and contaminations about
her. Hundreds of times she must have lied through ungovernable fear."

Opening the door for his companion, Linley paused before he followed her
in. A girl brought up by a careful mother would have understood and
appreciated his hesitation; she would have concealed any feeling of
embarrassment that might have troubled her at the moment, and would have
asked him to come back and let her know when the rising of the sun began.
Neglected by her mother, worse than neglected by her aunt, Sydney's
fearless ignorance put a question which would have lowered the poor girl
cruelly in the estimation of a stranger. "Are you going to leave me here by
myself?" she asked. 'Why don't you come in?"  Linley thought of his visit
to the school, and remembered the detestable mistress. He excused Sydney;
he felt for her. She held the door open for him. Sure of himself, he
entered the summer-house.

***** End The Evil Genius, by Wilkie Collins.

Jack London, in The Human Drift:

Man early discovered death.  As soon as his evolution permitted, he made
himself better devices for killing than the old natural ones of fang and
claw.  He devoted himself to the invention of killing devices before he
discovered fire or manufactured for himself religion.  And to this day, his
finest creative energy and technical skill are devoted to the same old task
of making better and ever better killing weapons.

more rose by the sword than perished by it, else man would not to-day be
over-running the world in such huge swarms.

they who did not rise by the sword did not rise at all.

by killing, incessant killing, by making a shambles of the planet, those
ape-like creatures have developed even into you and me.

More destructive of life than war, is industry.

In all civilised countries great masses of people are crowded into slums
and labour-ghettos, where disease festers, vice corrodes, and famine is
chronic, and where they die more swiftly and in greater numbers than do the
soldiers in our modern wars.

The safest place for a working man is in the army.  The common soldier on
the front line of battle has a better chance for survival than the laborer
at home. --Devin paraphrase.

man is exceedingly fecund and very tough.

While man's increasing efficiency of food-production, combined with
colonisation of whole virgin continents, has for generations given the
apparent lie to Malthus' mathematical statement of the Law of Population,
nevertheless the essential significance of his doctrine remains and cannot
be challenged.

no matter how rapidly subsistence increases, population is certain to catch
up with it.

The only reason that the Yellow River periodically drowns millions of
Chinese is that there is no other land for those millions to farm.

It is more expensive to be ready to kill than it used to be to do the
killing.

"The abysmal fecundity" of life has not altered.  Given the food, and life
will increase.

Even if, as of old, man should wander hungrily, sword in hand, slaying and
being slain, the relief would be only temporary.  Even if one race alone
should hew down the last survivor of all the other races, that one race,
drifting the world around, would saturate the planet with its own life and
again press against subsistence.

in the saturated populations of the future, when life is suffocating in the
pressure against subsistence, that new, and ever new, hosts of destroying
micro- organisms will continue to arise and fling themselves upon earth-
crowded man to give him room.

Of what ledger-account is the tiny life of man in a vastness where stars
snuff out like candles and great suns blaze for a time-tick of eternity and
are gone?

Socialism promises, for a time, to give all men, women, and children all
they want to eat, and to enable them to eat all they want as often as they
want. Subsistence will be pushed back, temporarily, an exceedingly long
way.  In consequence, the flood of life will rise like a tidal wave.  There
will be more marriages and more children born.  The enforced sterility that
obtains to-day for many millions, will no longer obtain.  Nor will the
fecund millions in the slums and labour-ghettos, who to-day die of all the
ills due to chronic underfeeding and overcrowding, and who die with their
fecundity largely unrealised, die in that future day when the increased
food-getting efficiency of socialism will give them all they want to eat.
It is undeniable that population will increase prodigiously-just as it has
increased prodigiously during the last few centuries, following upon the
increase in food-getting efficiency.  The magnitude of population in that
future day is well nigh unthinkable.  But there is only so much land and
water on the surface of the earth.  Man, despite his marvellous
accomplishments, will never be able to increase the diameter of the planet.
The old days of virgin continents will be gone.  The habitable planet, from
ice-cap to ice-cap, will be inhabited.  And in the matter of food-getting,
as in everything else, man is only finite.  Undreamed-of efficiencies in
food-getting may be achieved, but, soon or late, man will find himself face
to face with Malthus' grim law.

if a man is a born sailor, and has gone to the school of the sea, never in
all his life can he get away from the sea again.

***** End The Human Drift.

Jack London in The Jacket:

Our dreams are grotesquely compounded of the things we know.

Intelligent men are cruel.  Stupid men are monstrously cruel.

strong minds are never docile.

The stupid men, the fearful men, the men ungifted with passionate rightness
and fearless championship--these are the men who make model prisoners.

Memory is the thing one forgets with. --Devin paraphrase.

To be able to forget means sanity.  Incessantly to remember, means
obsession, lunacy.

men are killed in prisons today as they have always been killed since the
first prisons were built by men.

The Asiatic is a cruel beast, and delights in spectacles of human
suffering.

In general, any woman has fundamental charm for any man.  When this charm
becomes particular, then we call it love.

Man is different from woman.  She is close to the immediate and knows only
the need of instant things.  We know honour above her honour, and pride
beyond her wildest guess of pride.  Our eyes are far-visioned for
star-gazing, while her eyes see no farther than the solid earth beneath her
feet, the lover's breast upon her breast, the infant lusty in the hollow of
her arm.

Unlike the other animals, man was for ever gazing at the stars.  Many gods
he created in his own image and in the images of his fancy.

It required man, with his imagination, aided by his mastery of matter, to
invent the deadly sins.  The lesser animals, the other animals, are
incapable of sin.

***** End "The Jacket."

Jack London, in "The Iron Heel:"

With the introduction of machinery and the factory system in the latter
part of the eighteenth century, the great mass of the working people was
separated from the land.

The press of the United States?  It is a parasitic growth that battens on
the capitalist class.  Its function is to serve the established by moulding
public opinion, and right well it serves it.

The sun of the small capitalists is setting.  It will never rise again.

Combination is stronger than competition.

It is combination versus competition, a thousand centuries long struggle,
in which competition has always been worsted.  Whoso enlists on the side of
competition perishes.

the tide of evolution never flows backward.  It flows on and on, and it
flows from competition to combination,

Social evolution is exasperatingly slow,

Heaven and hell may be the prime factors of zeal in the religion of a
fanatic; but for the great majority of the religious, heaven and hell are
incidental to right and wrong.  Love of the right, desire for the right,
unhappiness with anything less than the right--in short, right conduct, is
the prime factor of religion.

The oligarchs believed their ethics, in spite of the fact that biology and
evolution gave them the lie;

Whenever strong proletarians asserted their strength in the midst of the
mass, they were drawn away from the mass by the oligarchs and given better
conditions by being made members of the labor castes or of the Mercenaries.
Thus discontent was lulled and the proletariat robbed of its natural
leaders.

Choice of work was denied them.  Likewise was denied them the right to move
from place to place, or the right to bear or possess arms.  They were not
land serfs like the farmers.

***** End "The Iron Heel"

Jack London in "War of the Classes:"

the warm human, fallible and frail, sordid and petty, absurd and
contradictory, even grotesque, and yet, withal, shot through with flashes
and glimmerings of something finer and God-like, with here and there
sweetnesses of service and unselfishness, desires for goodness, for
renunciation and sacrifice, and with conscience, stern and awful, at times
blazingly imperious, demanding the right,--the right, nothing more nor less
than the right.

people are prone to believe in the reality of the things they think ought
to be so.

This comes of the cheery optimism which is innate with life itself;

he cares more for men and women and little children than for imaginary
geographical lines.

Shoot the bolts and drop the bars in place. --Jack London.

The existence of anything is sufficient vindication of its fitness to
exist. --Jack London, pooh poohing the attitudes of popular culture.

They think they think, and such thinkless creatures are the arbiters of the
lives of the few who really think. --Jack London.

Every portal to success in literature is guarded by those watch-dogs, the
failures in literature.  The editors, sub-editors, associate editors, most
of them, and the manuscript-readers for the magazines and book- publishers,
most of them, nearly all of them, are men who wanted to write and who have
failed. --Jack London.

Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.
--Jack London.

And now, what do you know of matter, according to your own positive
science?  You know it only by its phenomena, its appearances.  You are
aware only of its changes, or of such changes in it as cause changes in
your consciousness. --Jack London.

he had an ideal, namely, of achieving that excellence of the perfect
reporter who is able to make something - even a great deal - out of
nothing. --Jack London.

***** End Martin Eden.

the cunning chemistry of a plant urges it toward the sun. --Jack London.

He oppressed the weak, but he respected the strong.

it is on power that godhead rests.

it is upon feeling, more often than thinking, that animals act.

All life likes power.

***** End White Fang.

she knew no more about the world than I do of the fourth dimension, or the
fifth. --Jack London.

the unpunished and shameless grafts of a thousand cities perpetrated by the
spidery and vermin-like creatures of the machines. --Jack London.

Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously,
honoring and respecting it.  They were easy game for the others, who saw
clearly and knew the bunco game for what it was.

whether it was a sack of potatoes, a grand piano, or a seven-passenger
touring car, it came into being only by the performance of work.  Where the
bunco came in was in the distribution of these things after labor had
created them. --Jack London.

but in his heart he was wondering about God, that allowed so many suckers
to be born and that did not break up the gambling game by which they were
robbed from the cradle to the grave. --Jack London.

computer systems are increasingly set up to give absentee operators control
over the people actually using the computer system. --Richard Stallman,
1996.

Let us honor the wifehood of our native land. It is the fountain of all
truth and righteousness, and if the fountain should become impure, all is
lost. --John N. Reynolds in "The Twin Hells."

When a woman falls she generally descends to the lowest plane. --John N.
Reynolds.

It used to appear to me that the small number of cultivated, rich and idle
men, of whom I was one, composed the whole of humanity, and that the
millions and millions of other men who had lived and are still living were
not in reality men at all. --Count Tolstoi.

I can look forward to no blissful prospect for a race of men that, under
the dominion of the State, at the cost of all freedom of action, at the
cost, indeed, of their own true selves, shall enjoy, if one will, a fair
abundance of the material blessings of life. --Benjamin Cardozo.

Altruism cannot be the rule of life.  Its logical result is the dwarfing of
the individual. --Benjamin Cardozo, 1898.

An offence to our humanity, and to our prated love of liberty, and to our
God. --Richard Harding Davis.

All the suave insolence of the Oriental. --Richard Harding Davis.

there are thoughts that will haunt us in spite of ourselves, and to which
it is in vain to say, Begone, and let me be merry. --Sir Walter Scott.

He has the more need to have those about him who are unscrupulous in his
service, and who, because they know that his fall will overwhelm and crush
them, must wager both blood and brain, soul and body, in order to keep him
aloft. --Sir Walter Scott.

He that is head of a party is but a boat on a wave, that raises not itself,
but is moved upward by the billow which it floats upon.

The Romish was a comfortable faith; Lambourne spoke true in that.  A man
had but to follow his thrift by such ways as offered--tell his beads, hear
a mass, confess, and be absolved.

A woman--to be brief--IS a woman, and changes her lovers like her suit of
ribands, with no better reason than mere fantasy.

Do we not know one another?  I believe thee to be so perfect--so very
perfect--in the mystery of cheating, that, having imposed upon all mankind,
thou hast at length in some measure imposed upon thyself, and without
ceasing to dupe others, hast become a species of dupe to thine own
imagination.

No one but thyself could have gulled thee; and thou hast gulled the whole
brotherhood of the Rosy Cross besides--none so deep in the mystery as thou.

The unfortunate Countess of Leicester had, from her infancy upwards, been
treated by those around her with indulgence as unbounded as injudicious.

That fatal error which ruined the happiness of her life had its origin in
the mistaken kindness that had spared her childhood the painful but most
necessary lesson of submission and self-command.

This aching of the heart, this languishing after a shadow which has lost
all the gaiety of its colouring, this dwelling on the remembrance of a
dream from which we have been long roughly awakened, is the weakness of a
gentle and generous heart.

He himself at length became sensible of the necessity of forcing other
objects upon his mind.

Moral monsters who contrive to lull to sleep the remorse of their own
bosoms, and are drugged into moral insensibility by atheism.

The wisest clerks are not the wisest men. --Chaucer.

There was a timid disposition to withdraw from her companion, which
external gesture in females often indicates exactly the opposite tendency
in the secret mind.

It is the nature of persons in her disorder ... to be ever most inveterate
in their spleen against those whom, in their better moments, they hold
nearest and dearest.

The moon is at the fullest, and men's brains are working like yeast.

The party that loves most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater
fault.

Be like a true English gentleman, knight, and earl, who holds that truth is
the foundation of honour, and that honour is dear to him as the breath of
his nostrils.

Be yourself, superior to those storms of passion which wreck inferior
minds.

Let her be as if she had not been--let her pass from your memory, as
unworthy of ever having held a place there.

The light yet strong buckler and the short two-edged sword, the use of
which had made them (the Romans) victors of the world.

The fanatical zeal which animated the followers of the Cross and of the
Crescent against each other.

When you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
--Friedman.

I cannot strike where there is neither fear nor resistance.

The bureaucracy overcame even common sense. --Steven Quail.

No sure dungeon but the grave.

The sage fears nothing but Heaven, but ever expects from wicked men the
worst which they can do.

Fortune may raise up or abase the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the
soldier should have minds beyond her control.

Love exists not without hope.

He (the hound) hath a share of man's intelligence, but no share of man's
falsehood.

Fancy being idle when one has such a little time to live. --Rider Haggard.

The only thing to do is to work and stifle thought. --Rider Haggard.

Death cannot be worse than life is for most of us. --Rider Haggard.

In your impatience you have flown to learning for refuge, and it has
completed your overthrow, for it has induced you to reject as non-existent
all that you cannot understand. Because your finite mind cannot search
infinity, because no answer has come to all your prayers, because you see
misery and cannot read its purpose, because you suffer and have not found
rest, you have said there is naught but chance, and become an atheist, as
many have done before you.

women folk are hard to teach; they never learn nothing till it's too late,
they don't, and then when they've been and done it they're sorry, but
what's the good o' that? --Rider Haggard.

It is of the women who already weary them and of their infidelity that men
are so ready to make examples, not of those who do not belong to them, and
whom they long for night and day. To these they can be very merciful.
--Rider Haggard.

Besides I daresay that the poor child is happier dead than he would have
been had he lived. It is not an altogether pleasant world for most of us.
--Rider Haggard.

I found, or I thought that I found, the same springs of superstition in
them all-- superstitions arising from elementary natural causes, and handed
on with variations from race to race, and time to time. In some I found the
same story, only with a slightly altered face, and I learned, moreover,
that each faith denied the other, and claimed truth for itself alone.
--Rider Haggard.

And so, you see, what between these causes and the continual spectacle of
human misery which to my mind negatives the idea of a merciful and watching
Power, at last it came to pass that the only altar left in my temple is an
altar to the 'Unknown God. --Rider Haggard.

The starry heavens no more prove anything than does the running of the
raindrops down the window-pane. It is not a question of size and quantity.
--Rider Haggard.

In the sea of Doubt she saw another buoyed up, if it were but on broken
pieces of the ship. --Rider Haggard.

when the heart rises in rebellion against the intelligence it must be
suppressed. --Rider Haggard.

Their sin is that they will, most of them, allow themselves to be put in
positions favourable to the development of these disagreeable influences.
It is not safe to light cigarettes in a powder factory. --Rider Haggard.

Many years have now passed since that event, and to some extent time has
softened the old grief, though Heaven knows it is still keen enough.
--Rider Haggard.

it is want of imagination that makes people fools; they won't believe what
they can't understand. --Rider Haggard.

Ah, how beautiful is nature before man comes to spoil it!

no man should run away from happiness (the happiness of women) because of
the sorrow. --Rider Haggard.

What is life but loss, loss upon loss, till life itself be lost? --Rider
Haggard.

when we find we lose, and when we seem to lose, then we shall really find.

Better first to love, and then to die! --Rider Haggard.

And yet you will still choose this better part: you will still "live and
love, and lose.

With sleep thought ends. --Haggard.

I am young and strong, and I want to see things, natural things-- not those
made by man, you know--the things I remember as a child.

There is no such thing as a spirit, an identity that survives death. But
there is such a thing as the subconscious self, which is part of the
animating principle of the universe, and, if only its knowledge can be
unsealed, knows all that has passed and all that is passing in that
universe. One day perhaps you will read the works of my compatriot, Hegel,
and there you will find it spoken of. --Haggard.

in madness is much wisdom, and in wisdom much madness. --Rider Haggard.

There is no oath that can bind a woman's tongue.

As their glory is, so shall their shame be.

With love comes sorrow.

He was a patriot indeed, asking nothing for himself, and giving all things
to his cause.

Those who sin deceive themselves, striving to lay the burden of their evil
deeds upon the back of Fate, striving to believe their wickedness may
compass good, and to murder Conscience with the sharp plea of Necessity.

The shame of one whom we have loved must in some sort become our shame, and
must ever cling to us, because we blindly held a thing so base close to our
inmost heart.

all things end in darkness and in ashes, and those who sow in folly shall
reap in sorrow.

Unhappy, therefore, are the Great, for they may fall!

Woman being grown hath two ills to fear--Death and Marriage; and of these
twain is Marriage the more vile; for in Death we may find rest, but in
Marriage, should it fail us, we must find hell.

Love counts not its labour, Charmion, nor can it weight its tenderness on
the scale of purchase. That which it has it gives, and craves for more to
give and give, till the soul's infinity be drained.

Pity is love's own twin.

But the more high the love, the deeper the gulf whereinto it can fall--ay,
and thence soar again to heaven, once more to fall! Poor woman! thou art
thy passion's plaything: now tender as the morning sky, and now, when
jealousy grips thy heart, more cruel than the sea.

the Love Divine is Love Eternal, which cannot be extinguished, though it be
everlastingly estranged.

what man is there who does not prize that gift most rare and beautiful,
that one perfect thing which no gold can buy--a woman's unfeigned love?

Pity has no place in politics.

He who loved me clung to me as a drunkard to the cup which ruins him.

For though that thing we worship doth bring us ruin, and Love being more
pitiless than Death, we in turn do pay all our sorrow back; yet we must
worship on, yet stretch out our arms towards our lost Desire, and pour our
heart's blood upon the shrine of our discrowned God.  For Love is of the
Spirit, and knows not Death.

Even friendship has its price.

Money gives everything for which men strive--honour, and place, and
comfort, and the friendship of kings.

women love those best who beat them, be it with the tongue or with the
fist.

Well, let us thank the gods that made men foolish, and gave us women wit to
profit by their folly.

Misfortunes are the master of man, not man of his misfortunes.

There is no journey upon this earth that a man may not make if he sets his
heart to it.

Man must die. At the worst he can but die a little sooner.

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go.

At last the time came, as it ever comes to him who can wait for it.

Fortune favors the brave.

The eyes of mankind are blind to the discredited, and he who is defenceless
and fallen finds few friends and little mercy.

Truly wealth, which men spend their lives in acquiring, is a valueless
thing at the last.

That which flies in the air loves not to run along the ground; the white
man loves not to live on the level of the black or to house among his
kraals.

Money is nothing when compared with honor.

This is how African superstitions are kept alive. Sooner or later some
saying of the sort fulfils itself and then the instance is remembered and
handed down for generations, while other instances in which nothing out of
the common has occurred are not heeded, or are forgotten.

I dare say it is a form of selfishness, but what every man desires is
something that cares for him /alone/, which is just why we are so fond of
dogs.

The woman who as we believed adored us solely has probably in the course of
her career adored others, or at any rate other things.

The sublime and the ridiculous are so very near akin.

In this world most changes are for the worse.

the best way to hold love is to be faithless to him who loves.

After all, what was life as we knew it? A passing breath! Well, as the body
breathes many million times between the cradle and the grave, so I believed
the soul must breathe out its countless lives, each ending in a form of
death.

The fallen have no friends.

Oh! what marplot of a devil rules our destinies?

a wife and children are the most terrible gifts of God, if the most
blessed, for they turn our hearts to water.

But what is life? A bubble that any pin may prick.

let's get out of this before I grow superstitious, as men who believe in
nothing sometimes do, because after all they must believe in something, I
suppose.

In my leisure I have examined into the various religious systems and found
them to be rubbish.

I am convinced that we are but highly-developed mammals born by chance, and
when our day is done, departing into the black nothingness out of which we
came.

Everything else, that is, what is called the higher and spiritual part, I
attribute to the superstitions incident to the terror of the hideous
position in which we find ourselves, that of gods of a sort hemmed in by a
few years of fearful and tormented life.

I was brought up as an Evangelical, and although I haven't given much
thought to these matters of late years--well, we don't shake them off in a
hurry.

there are plenty of true things in the world besides those which we
believe.

when he beholds anything strange, the first impulse of a savage is to bring
it to its death.

Just how artificial must people become before they realize they are sick in
the head? --Devin.

How long will Honolulu keep my body alive while destroying my spirit?
--Devin.

Now at last at sixty, I know evil, and see it all about me where once
Christianity made me blind, and this be wisdom. --Devin.

What is the good of gold," she asked of Alan, "except to make things of, or
the bright stones except to play with? What is the good of anything except
food to eat and power and wisdom that can open the secret doors of
knowledge, of things seen and things unseen, and love that brings the lover
joy and forgetfulness of self and takes away the awful loneliness of the
soul, if only for a little while? --H. Rider Haggard.

Powder very great 'vention, especially when enemy hain't got none.

in a woman's heart passion is the door by which King Folly enters.

the loftier the spirit the greater is the fall.

she was not as other women are, but greater for good or evil.

what is power? It is a rod wherewith we beat the air that straightway
closes on the stroke.

ever those who seek love lose, and those who seek not find.

Little I fear the rush of battle and the blows men deal in anger, Lady,
though a man may fear the Gods without shame.

Time brings thought.

if a woman be but beautiful enough she may drag all men to ruin.

one man dead gives another bread.

It ain't the kings we admire, it's their crowns; it ain't the millionaires,
it's their millions.

no one should never take back a servant what has given notice and then says
he's sorry, for if he does the sorrow will be on the other side before it's
all done.

if a man's got to die, he'd better die honest without breaking his word.

They had no experience of slaughter and rapine, their imaginations were not
sufficiently strong to enable them to understand what these things meant;
they were lost in the pettiness of daily life and its pressing local
interests.

Soon or late the people who refuse to be ready to fight must fall and
become the servants of those who are ready.

none are quicker than negroes to detect signs of fear in those whom they
are accustomed to consider superior to themselves.

when men once surrender themselves to any unnatural and brutal vice, the
gratification of the abnormal instinct thus acquired becomes the most
imperative need of their nature. --William Charles Scully.

evil often falls on the heads of those who shoot arrows at a god,
especially if they have not enough arrows.

tall trees are the first to fall

The future is hid from mortals because, could they pierce its veil, it
would crush them with its terrors.

Light and darkness make the day, joy and sorrow make the life.

Honour is more than life.

those who are set high have far to fall.

No one thinks much of the physician who charges low fees.

Trading freedom for security has always been a bad bargain. --Devin
paraphrase.

by wizardry, or what men so name, does the whole world move; only being so
near we see it not.

judge not from the outward seeming; good wine is often found in jars of
common clay, and the fire hid in a rough flint can destroy a city.

Would that I had not been born to know grief and death.

there is design in heaven, and justice upon earth, and, after justice,
judgment.

happiness is a bird that no man can snare, though sometimes, of its own
will, it flies in at his window-place.

All we see is shadow.  We ourselves are shadows.  The realities who cast
them live in a different home which is lit by some spirit sun that never
sets. (edited quotation).

Death is but a single step in the pylon stair which leads at last to that
dizzy height whence we see the face of God and hear his voice tell us what
and why we are. (edited)

Why ask, O Prince, seeing that it has befallen otherwise?

Of what use are lives which we do not remember after death has shut the
door of each of them?

being cowards as the cruel always are.

it is the spirit which gives true beauty both to maid and man and not the
flesh.

men must go where their gods drive them.

All gods, or their priests, claim the power to torment and slay those who
worship other gods.

The writer creates, but the slayer kills, and in a world ruled of death he
who kills has more honour than he who creates.

He who speaks but half the truth is sometimes more mischievous than a liar.

Those who desire to do the most good often work the greatest harm.

Good is truth and truth rules earth and heaven.

There are nights when one wishes to escape pain, which is sure to be found
again on the morrow.

There is but one good thing in the world, one thing in which self and its
miseries can be forgot, and that thing is love.

this invisible tie has drawn us together out of the whole world and will
bind us together long after the world is dead.

Never grow angry, it wastes strength, of which we have so little to spare.

What causes man to be half a beast and half a god and to grow downward to
the beast or upward to the god--or both?

Little things--such as the scent of a flower, or the passing of a bird, or
even the writhing of a snake in the dust--often bring back to the mind
events or words it has forgotten long ago.

Short jests are ever the best.

Love is the key of life, and those alone are accursed who have never
learned to love.

Most savages are desperate bullies at heart, and look on insolence as a
sign of power.

Knowledge learned is power earned.

The tendency of the human mind--and more especially of the Norse mind --is
to supply uncommon and extraordinary reasons for actions and facts that are
to be amply accounted for by the working of natural forces.

This was her joy: to draw the hearts of men to her and then to mock them.

She knew well the arts of women, with which they bring men to nothing.

Happiness is to the bold.

This is wisdom: to satisfy the longing of thy youth; for age creeps on
apace and beyond is darkness.

Trust nothing that thou seest and little that thou hearest, so shall thy
guesses be good.

Cunning is mightier than strength, and lies pierce further than swords.

With time men change their temper.

Young blood makes light of cold or death.

Men do not dream on love in the hour of death.

Cunning is mightier than strength, that lies pierce further than swords,
and that witchcraft wins where honesty must fail.

Big words do not make big deeds.

Love makes an old man blind.

When age runs with youth, both shall fall.

Mix grey locks and golden and spoil two heads.

Women stab in the back.

A man may deal with swords aloft, but not with tricks, and lies, and false
women's witchery.

Evil women plot evil, but good women do evil out of their own blind
foolishness. --Devin paraphrase.

Forswear women and so shalt thou live happy and die in honour--cherish them
and live in wretchedness and die an outcast.

As things are so let them be, for they will soon seem as though they had
never been.

When Love rises like the sun, wisdom melts like the mists.

all wept for are not lost, nor all who are lost wept for."

Honour is often slain of heavy need," said Asmund.

Here, it would seem, is nothing but hate and strife, weariness and bitter
envy to fret away our strength, and at last, if we come so far, sorrowful
(old) age and death, and thereafter we know not what.

what is it to win fame? Is it not to raise up foes, as it were, from the
very soil, who, made with secret hate, seek to stab us in the back? Is it
not to lose peace, and toil on from height to height only to be hurled down
at last? Happy, then, is the man whom fame flies from, for hers is a deadly
gift.

Woman's guile and beauty are swords few shields can brook.

That which cannot be mended must be borne.

Stormy waters show how the boat is built.

My years have been few and evil, and I cannot read the purpose of my life.

(Of Saladin:) his fierce faith drove him from war to war.

Even now the Sultan Saladin, sitting at Damascus, summons his hosts from
far and wide, while his priests preach battle amongst the tribes and barons
of the East.

In Rosamund's heart were hid the secret strength and silence of the East,
which can throw a mask impenetrable over face and features.

I think, too, that I have forgot my wisdom, but my heart rose against this
man, and being still weak from sickness, I lost my judgment and spoke what
was in my heart, who would have done better to wait.

Turn when you are just between her knees, and you may well end up in
Paradise; but turn at any other time, and you will walk right past her.
--Devin.

Central Asia where, if anywhere upon this earth, wisdom is to be found.
(Ha-ha! --Devin)

Life is not worth the trouble of life except when one is in love.

I was not then old enough to be aware how many things happen in this world
that the common sense of the average man would set down as so improbable as
to be absolutely impossible.

People are apt to fossilise even at a University if they follow the same
paths too persistently.

Ceremony is the touchstone of morality.

All things that are under the sun go down one path, and are for ever
forgotten.

My age protects me from the young ones."

I saw a type and image of what man is, and what perchance man may one day
be, if the living Force who ordained him and them should so ordain this
also.

Oh, that it might be ours to rest year by year upon that high level of the
heart to which at times we momentarily attain!

That invisible but surrounding Good from which all truth and beauty comes.

Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought. What is
the purpose of our feeble crying in the awful silences of space?

Can our dim intelligence read the secrets of that star-strewn sky? Does any
answer come out of it? Never any at all.

By the help of Hope we yet may climb to Heaven, or at the worst, if she
also prove but a kindly mockery given to hold us from despair, be gently
lowered into the abysses of eternal sleep.

The infinite continuation of life would not, as poor Vincey said, be so
marvellous a thing as the production of life and its temporary endurance.

I was very sure that /I/ would not attempt to attain unending life. I had
had far too many worries and disappointments and secret bitternesses during
my forty odd years of existence to wish that this state of affairs should
be continued indefinitely. And yet I suppose that my life has been,
comparatively speaking, a happy one.

If once I began to creep upon my knees I should always have to do so.

Most of our so-called prejudices, a good deal of common sense to recommend
it.

Beauty is like the lightning; it is lovely, but it destroys.

Curses on the fatal curiosity that is ever prompting man to draw the veil
from woman, and curses on the natural impulse that begets it! It is the
cause of half--ay, and more than half--of our misfortunes. Why cannot man
be content to live alone and be happy, and let the women live alone and be
happy too?

surely the food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is
only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

it is so hard for woman to be merciful.

Mankind asks ever of the skies to vision out what lies behind them. It is
terror for the end, and but a subtler form of selfishness--this it is that
breeds religions. Mark, my Holly, each religion claims the future for its
followers; or, at least, the good thereof. The evil is for those benighted
ones who will have none of it; seeing the light the true believers worship,
as the fishes see the stars, but dimly.

The religions come and the religions pass, and the civilisations come and
pass, and naught endures but the world and human nature. Ah! if man would
but see that hope is from within and not from without--that he himself must
work out his own salvation! He is there, and within him is the breath of
life and a knowledge of good and evil as good and evil is to him. Thereon
let him build and stand erect, and not cast himself before the image of
some unknown God, modelled like his poor self, but with a bigger brain to
think the evil thing, and a longer arm to do it.

Alas and alas! how easily the best of us are lighted down to evil by the
gleam of a woman's eyes!

Men are faithful for so long only as temptations pass them by. If the
temptation be but strong enough, then will the man yield, for every man,
like every rope, hath his breaking strain, and passion is to men what gold
and power are to women--the weight upon their weakness.

Man can be bought with woman's beauty, if it be but beautiful enough; and
woman's beauty can be ever bought with gold, if only there be gold enough.

The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom
who bids the highest in the currency of our desires.

Better is an hour with love than a century of loneliness.

Those who are weak must perish; the earth is to the strong, and the fruits
thereof.

Out of crimes come many good things, and out of good grows much evil. The
cruel rage of the tyrant may prove a blessing to the thousands who come
after him, and the sweetheartedness of a holy man may make a nation slaves.

Therefore doth it not become us to say this thing is evil and this good, or
the dark is hateful and the light lovely; for to other eyes than ours the
evil may be the good and the darkness more beautiful than the day, or all
alike be fair.

Trust not to the future, for who knows what the future may bring!
Therefore, live for the day, and endeavour not to escape the dust which
seems to be man's end.

It is a well known fact that very often, putting the period of boyhood out
of the question, the older we grow the more cynical and hardened we get;
indeed many of us are only saved by timely death from utter moral
petrifaction if not moral corruption. No one will deny that a young man is
on the average better than an old one, for he is without that experience of
the order of things that in certain thoughtful dispositions can hardly fail
to produce cynicism, and that disregard of acknowledged methods and
established custom which we call evil.

For me, oh Ayesha, the world has not proved so soft a nest that I would lie
in it for ever. A stony-hearted mother is our earth, and stones are the
bread she gives her children for their daily food. Stones to eat and bitter
water for their thirst, and stripes for tender nurture.

Hard is it to die, because our delicate flesh doth shrink back from the
worm it will not feel, and from that unknown which the winding-sheet doth
curtain from our view.

Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed
till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height,
and there is no resting-place upon them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and
there is no limit to the number.

Nay, my Holly, there is love--love which makes all things beautiful, and
doth breathe divinity into the very dust we tread.

I will live my day, and grow old with my generation, and die my appointed
death, and be forgotten.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this
brush of faith and this many-coloured pigment of imagination! Strange, too,
that no one of them doth agree with another!

why rob a fool of his bauble?

Thou dost feel old age creeping slowly toward thyself, and the confusion of
senility making havoc in thy brain.

I had no wish to prolong an existence which must always be haunted and
tortured by her memory, and by the last bitterness of unsatisfied love.

Democracies, having no clear will of their own, in the end set up a tyrant,
and worship him.

democracies, having no clear will of their own, in the end set up a tyrant,
and worship him.

In life we sometimes have to lay our faith upon strange altars.

The veil between that which we see and the great invisible truths, the
whisper of whose wings at times we hear as they sweep through the gross air
of the world.

Be careful when power comes to thee also, lest thou too shouldst smite in
thine anger or thy jealousy, for unconquerable strength is a sore weapon in
the hands of erring man.

Deep love unsatisfied is the hell of noble hearts and a portion of the
accursed, but love that is mirrored back more perfect from the soul of our
desired doth fashion wings to lift us above ourselves, and makes us what we
might be.

Blessed is sleep, for it swallows up recollection.

Truly time should be measured by events, and not by the lapse of hours.

Man must forth to battle and woman must wait and watch, for that is the
world's way.

The unworthiness of the minister does not invalidate the sacrament. Were it
otherwise, indeed, few would be well baptized or wed or shriven.

What is not ended can still be mended.

Englishmen put not their faith in numbers, but in justice and their own
great hearts.

What is the use of a spy who never spies?

The man whose quarrel is just is always to be feared.

Fear is ever cruel.

Step leads to step, and he who runs may not stop upon them.

Truly in all the wide universe there is no room for such a thing as chance.

In its extremities (human) nature knows no shame.

The further you get from man, the nearer you grow to God.

Here no large town has arisen, nor have mines been dug or factories built
to affront the earth and defile the air with their hideousness and smoke.

When the wine is in, the truth is out.

When maids' waists are willing, men's arms reach far.

Be smart, be brave, be afraid. --Lois Raimondo (Afghanistan).

These be bad days for Truth and those who court her.

This is a strange world of ours, in which from hour to hour top becomes
bottom, and bottom top.

Get hence, wench. Why do you stand there gaping on us, like an owl in
sunlight?

A monk should have no country and no kin.

In this world there are so many things that we cannot understand.

Right is no Joshua's trumpet to cause high walls to fall.

I know also that there is a God who protects the innocent, though sometimes
He is slow to lift His hand.

"Strange things have happened to many who trusted in God; to that the whole
evil world bears witness.

Injustice makes me mad.

I fear that heaven's doors are closed to me; no light comes through.

***** End H. Rider Haggard.

***** Begin History of Phoenicia, By George Rawlinson.

Beauties of nature are rarely sung of by early poets; and it appears to
require an educated eye to appreciate them.

It is the conception of a grand whole which constitutes greatness in art.

***** Resuming Haggard in "Maiden of the Sun."

It is by little things which we ourselves have seen and not by those
written of or told by others, that we measure and compare events.

You are such a one as women will love; one, too, who, I fear me, will be a
lover of women, for that weakness goes with strength and manhood by
Nature's laws.

Choose those who are not false and cling to her who is most true.

It was a vile world, and it seemed strange that God should cause men and
women to be born that they might come to such cruel ends.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

We are all knaves, each in his own fashion, who if we do not deceive
others, at least deceive ourselves.

All Nature is the raiment of God.

Those who have much love are much jealous.

The hand of the dyer was stained to the colour of his vat.

Few are they that know life's wars who have no scar to hide.

It is what women do that weighs, not what they say.

the thing could be read two ways, like all prophecies.

It is the man, Kari, who waits to be loved and pays back just as much as is
given to him, and no more, like an honest merchant; for if he does
otherwise, then he suffers for it, as I have learned.

Love I must have, or death.

The perfect and lovely are always chosen to be the sacrifice of gods.

Dead or living, you still love her, and where there is love there is no
death.

Love, if it be true, is always jealous and always hates a rival.

"  "There are different sorts of loves," I said; "that of a man for man is
one, that of man for woman is another."  "Yes, Master, and that of woman
for man is a third; moreover, there is this about it--it is the acid which
turns all other loves sour. Where are a man's friends when a woman has him
by the heart?--although perchance they love him better than ever will the
woman who at bottom loves herself best of all. Still, let that be, for so
Nature works, and who can fight against Nature?

He who watches the battle with a general's eye sees more of it than he who
fights.

In the grave there is no more fear.

To the power of love there is no end--here on earth or yonder in the skies.

Trust me always. Play your part and I will play mine.

Women are ever prone to love those whom they think they have saved.

There comes a time to most men when above everything they desire rest.

We men who seem to rule the world do not rule it at all, because always
women rule us.

The man thinks of many things, the woman only thinks of what she desires.

The man whom Nature already has bemused, only brings a little piece of his
mind to fight against her whole mind, and so is conquered; he who was made
for one thing only, to be the mate of the woman that she may mother more
men in order to serve the wills of other women who yet seem to be those
men's slaves.

I have seen men great and noble brought to nothingness and ruin by their
love for women; down into the dirt, indeed, when their hands were full of
the world's wealth and glory.

I have noticed that they (men) seldom learn wisdom, and that what they have
done before, they are ready to do again, who believe anything that soft
lips swear to them.

Of all these multitudes she alone understood and was akin to me, because
the sacred fire of love had burned away our differences and opened her
eyes.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. --Albert
Einstein.

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the
intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell.
Human prosperity never continues steadfast (cities rise and fall).
--Herodotus.

Iron has been discovered for the evil of mankind. --Herodotus.

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their
sons. --Croesus.

For the affairs of men there is a revolving wheel, and that this in its
revolution suffers not the same persons always to have good fortune.
--Croesus.

If one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best
customs from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after
examining them all, would select those of his own people.  Thus all think
that their own customs are by far the best. --Herodotus.

Many prefer that which is reasonable to that which is strictly just.
--Daughter of Periander.

Many ere now in seeking the things of their mother have lost the things of
their father. --Daughter of Periander.

How should the rule of one alone be a well-ordered thing, seeing that the
monarch may do what he desires without rendering any account of his acts?
Even the best of all men, if he were placed in this disposition, would be
caused by it to change from his wonted disposition. --Otanes.

Nothing is more senseless or insolent than a worthless crowd. --Megabyzos.

Nothing better can be found than the rule of an individual man of the best
kind, seeing that using the best judgment he would be guardian of the
multitude without reproach. --Dareios.

There arise among the corrupt men not enmities but strong ties of
friendship, for they who are acting corruptly to the injury of the
commonwealth put their heads together secretly to do so. --Dareios.

I do not desire either to rule or to be ruled. --Otanes.

In order that they may be worn down by war and not have leisure to plot
against thee. --Atossa.

As the body grows the spirit grows old also with it, and is blunted for
every kind of action. --Atossa.

Once television was a reflection of the state of the American people.  Now
the state of the American people is a reflection of television. --Devin.

Human beings are many but men are few. --The Medes.

they envy a man for his good luck, and they hate that which is stronger
than themselves. --Achaimenes.

Disagreement between those of the same race is worse than war undertaken
with one consent by as much as war is worse than peace. --Herodotus.

The Athenians yielded, having it much at heart that Hellas should be saved,
and perceiving that if they should have disagreement with one another about
the leadership, Hellas would perish. --Herodotus.

Being himself a despot he is working in league with a despot. --Spartans.

In Barbarians there is neither faith nor truth at all. --Spartans.

Because we long for liberty we shall defend ourselves as we may be able.
--Athenians.

He himself and his countrymen had in truth a city and a land larger than
that of the Corinthians, so long as they had two hundred ships fully
manned; for none of the Hellenes would be able to repel the Athenians if
they came to fight against them.--Themistocles.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of
the truth but no power over the event. --A Persian.

It is better to bring our lives to an end doing deeds of valour and
defending ourselves than to be destroyed by a dishonourable death offering
ourselves for the slaughter. --Harmokydes.

***** Resuning H. Rider Haggard:

Time softens a man's judgment.

An infinite variety of knowledge is needed to shape the soul of man, even
though it remain as yet imperfect and but a shadow of what it shall be.

Faith is the art of believing those things we know to be untrue. --Devin
paraphrase.

Her clear, scientific stamp of mind searched for ascertainable facts, and
on these she built up her philosophy of life and of the death that ends it.

Those who deal in the supernatural are afraid of the supernatural.

Occasionally, indeed, men do love fools in an enduring fashion, which is
perhaps the most evil fate that can be laid upon them.

It has pleased Nature to make man polygamous in his instincts, though where
those instincts end and what is called love begins, is a thing almost
impossible to define.

She did not understand him, as, for his part, in her he found nothing to
understand.

Alas! how easy it is for the most innocent to be misjudged.

He was too young to mask his feelings, as people must learn to do in life.

Always, always in the world we are suffering from the faults of others.

It is strange to think that the same God who made the stars also made
Madame Riennes.

This cold house, where there's so much praying but not a spark of love.

it's what we care about we are starved in, just to make it hot for us poor
humans.

In this way or that, it's the same with everyone, none of us gets what we
want, while of what we don't want there's always plenty.

What a fuss we make about things before we face 'em. After all they ain't
nothing but bubbles. Blow them and they burst.

Frequently enough homes are not what fond fancy paints them, while in the
bosom of strangers there is much kindliness.

Although he never carried out the doctrine in his own small affairs, he
believed that nations were enjoined by divine decree to turn the other
cheek and indeed every portion of their corporate frame to the smiter, and
that by so doing, in some mysterious way, they would attain to profound
peace and felicity.

It is the bold, self-confident man, who knows how to make the most of his
small gifts, who travels fastest and farthest in this world of ours.

One is never left at leisure to follow one's own fancies in this world.

Those who mistake personal aversion for personal virtue.

The Power above Whom he pictured in his mind's eye as a furious old man,
animated chiefly by jealousy and a desire to wreak vengeance on and torture
the helpless.

They would be too happy, which something is always trying to prevent.

The bishop, who like everyone else knew the whole story, gently suggested
to him that a change of livings would be to his advantage. (Which, being
written about 1915, confirms that current church hanky panky is no new
problem. --Devin)

It is truth that all who are worth anything are called upon to suffer, to
what end we do not know. Nothing of value is gained except by suffering.

The dead are never really dead to us until they are forgotten, and the same
applies to the living.

That impenetrable, devouring darkness out of which we come and into which
we go.

Passion, however exalted, passes or at least becomes dull with years.

Children grow up, and in so doing, by the law of Nature, grow away.

Everything has a meaning, and all joy must be won through pain. --Devin
paraphrase.

We have met Death face to face and conquered him.

It comes from his mind, and it is there that the danger lies, for who can
doctor a broken heart?

It often chances that those whose hearts are small and mean reap the reward
of the courage and misfortunes of braver men.

Ah! I tell you, my child, the veldt in those days was different indeed from
what it is now. The land itself remains the same except where white men
have built towns upon it, but all else is changed. Then it was black with
game when the grass was green; yes, at times I have seen it so black for
miles that we could scarcely see the grass. There were all sorts of them,
springbucks in myriads, blesbok and quagga and wildebeeste in thousands,
sable antelope, sassaby and hartebeeste in herds, eland, giraffe and koodoo
in troops; while the forests were full of elephant and the streams of
sea-cow. They are all gone now, the beautiful wild creatures; the guns of
the white men have killed them out or driven them away.

I have learned that there are many things in the world which we cannot
understand but which play a part in our lives nevertheless.

We judge of people as they deal by us.

The cowards, and those whom their cowardice has betrayed will all be dead
together.

The blade of the spear shall be the inheritance of you who are afraid to
grasp its shaft.

The darkness which we fear will prove such a happy light as does not shine
upon this earth.

My mind, that was wont to be so clear, is darkened.

Now we wander in the forest of despair, but never yet was there a forest so
thick that it cannot be passed.

Oh! that my wisdom might come back to me.

The sleep of the doomed is light.

There is little faith amongst the Moors, and they bite one another like
dogs and like to see one after the other destroyed. --Fernao Nuniz (1536?).

And yet if it be a fine thing to hold a fortress impregnable to attack, I
count it a greater glory that a man should hold the fortress of his soul
inviolable against the assaults of riches, pleasures, fears. --Xenophon.

They almost made me forget who I was, so persuasively did they speak, and
yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth. --Socrates.

Who began when you were children, and took possession of your minds with
their falsehoods. --Socrates.

Their charges against me are of ancient date, and they were made by them in
the days when you were more impressible than you are now--in childhood, or
it may have been in youth--and the cause when heard went by default, for
there was none to answer. --Socrates.

All who from envy and malice have persuaded you--some of them having first
convinced themselves. --Socrates.

He was thought wise by many, and still wiser by himself. --Socrates.

Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful
and good, I am better off than he is,  for he knows nothing, and thinks
that he knows, whereas I neither know nor think I know.  In this latter
particular, then, I seem to have slightly the advantage of him. --Socrates.

Not by wisdom do poets write poetry, but by a sort of genius and
inspiration; they are like diviners or soothsayers who also say many fine
things, but do not understand the meaning of them. --Socrates.

They do not like to confess that their pretence of knowledge has been
detected. --Socrates.

There are plenty of persons, as they quickly discover, who think that they
know something, but really know little or nothing; and then those who are
examined by them instead of being angry with themselves are angry with me.
--Socrates.

and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth?

Meletus is a doer of evil in that he pretends to be in earnest when he is
only in jest, and is so eager to bring men to trial from a pretended zeal
and interest about matters in which he really never had the smallest
interest. --Socrates.

This is what will be my destruction if I am destroyed: not Meletus, nor yet
Anytus, but the envy and detraction of the world, which has been the death
of many good men, and will probably be the death of many more.  There is no
danger of my being the last of them. --Socrates.

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living
or dying.  He ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing
right or wrong--acting the part of a good man or of a bad one. --Socrates.

Wherever a man's place is, whether the place which he has chosen or that in
which he has been placed by a commander, there he ought to remain in the
hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything but of
disgrace. --Socrates.

The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom,
being a pretence of knowing the unknown.  No one knows whether death, which
men in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the
greatest good. --Socrates.

In this respect only I believe myself to differ from men in general, and
may perhaps claim to be wiser than they are: whereas I know but little of
the world below, I do not suppose that I know. --Socrates.

I believe that no greater good has ever happened in the state than my
service to the God, for I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old
and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties,
but first and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.
I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes
money and every other good of man, public as well as private. --Socrates.

I would have you know that if you kill such an one as I am, you will injure
yourselves more than you will injure me. --Socrates.

If you kill me you will not easily find a successor to me, who, if I may
use such a ludicrous figure of speech, am a sort of gadfly, given to the
state by God; and the state is a great and noble steed who is tardy in his
motions owing to his very size, and requires to be stirred into life.
--Socrates.

You think that you might easily strike me dead as Anytus advises, and then
you would sleep on for the remainder of your lives, unless God in his care
of you sent you another gadfly. --Socrates.

If I had engaged in politics, I should have perished long ago, and done no
good either to you or to myself. --Socrates.

He who will fight for the right, if he would live even for a brief space,
must have a private station and not a public one. --Socrates.

I cared not a straw for death... My great and only care was lest I should
do an unrighteous or unholy thing. --Socrates.

They like to hear the cross-examination of pretenders to wisdom.  There is
amusement in it. --Socrates.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a sense higher than that in which
any of my accusers believe in them. --Socrates.

I sought to persuade every man among you that he must look to himself, and
seek virtue and wisdom before he looks to his private interests, and look
to the state before he looks to the interests of the state; and that this
should be the order which he observes in all his actions. --Socrates.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live. --Socrates.

I cannot in a moment refute great slanders. --Socrates.

I never intentionally wronged any one. --Socrates.

Daily to discourse about virtue and those other things about which you hear
me examining myself and others is the greatest good of man. --Socrates.

The unexamined life is not worth living. --Socrates.

I have never been accustomed to think that I deserve to suffer any harm.
--Socrates.

I would rather die having spoken after my manner, than speak in your manner
and live. --Socrates.

The difficulty, my friends, is not to avoid death but to avoid
unrighteousness, for unrighteousness runs faster than death. --Socrates.

In the hour of death men are gifted with prophetic power. --Socrates.

Me you have killed because you wanted to escape the accuser and not to give
an account of your lives. --Socrates.

If you think that by killing men you can prevent some one from censuring
your evil lives, you are mistaken; that is not a way of escape which is
either possible or honourable; the easiest and the noblest way is not to be
disabling others, but to be improving yourselves. --Socrates.

All eternity is but a single night. --Devin paraphrase.

I shall then be able to continue my search into true and false knowledge.
--Socrates.

I shall find out who is wise, and who pretends to be wise and is not.
--Socrates.

Know of a certainty that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life
or after death. --Socrates.

They have done me no harm, although they did not mean to do me any good.
--Socrates.

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them;
and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to
care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend
to be something when they are really nothing,--then reprove them, as I have
reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and
thinking that they are something when they are really nothing. --Socrates.

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die, and you to
live.  Which is better God only knows. --Socrates.

A horse that will not obey is only fighting for the enemy and not his
friends. --Xenophon.

True generalship consists in attacking where the enemy is weakest, even if
the point be some leagues distant. Severity of toil weighs nothing in the
scale against the danger of engaging a force superior to your own.
--Xenophon.

Make it a rule always to pursue a weaker with a stronger force. --Xenophon.

A mob of horses clustered together (owing perhaps to the creatures' size)
will give a suggestion of number, whereas scattered they may easily be
counted. --Xenophon.

There is no instrument of war more cunning than chicanery. --Xenophon.

Fear makes a shrewd watchman. --Old Greek proverb quoted by Xenophon.

The more numerous soldiers are, the more blunders they commit. --Devin
paraphrase.

The role of the inferior force is to remain battle-ready and watch the
superior force from cover until some blunder is made. --Devin paraphrase.

Large bodies of soldiers will have to send people out for food, waste
disposal, etc., and will tend to get strung out on marches.  These are
opportunities to strike, and must not allowed to go unpunished. --Devin
paraphrase.

When he strikes a blow, the commander of the inferior force must be
expeditious and retire before the main body has time to rally to the
rescue. --Devin paraphrase.

In the passage of rivers, defiles, and the like, it is possible for a
general with a head on his shoulders to hang on the heels of an enemy in
security, and to determine with precision[11] the exact number of the enemy
he will care to deal with. --Xenophon.

Occasionally the fine chance occurs to atack the foe while encamping or
breakfasting or supping, or as the men turn out of bed: seasons at which
the soldier is apt to be unharnessed--the hoplite for a shorter, the
cavalry trooper for a longer period. --Xenophon.

As to vedettes and advanced outposts, you should never cease planning and
plotting against them. For these in their turn, as a rule, are apt to
consist of small numbers, and are sometimes posted at a great distance from
their own main body.

These frontier outposts are especially prone to be deceived, with their
propensity to give chase to any small body they set eyes on, regarding that
as their peculiar function. You will have to see, however, in retiring that
your line of retreat is not right into the jaws of the enemy's reliefs
hastening to the scene of action. --Xenophon.

The way for a small force to overcome a large one is by superiority in
training, morale, mobility, military intelligence, and knowledge of the
terrain. --Devin.

There is no accomplishment which so nearly realises the aspiration of a man
to have the wings of a bird than this of horsemanship. --Xenophon.

Either men must till their fields or live on the tillage of others.
--Xenophon.

In charging a superior force, never to leave a difficult tract of ground in
the rear of your attack, since there is all the difference in the world
between a stumble in flight and a stumble in pursuit. --Xenophon.

if you attack with a prospect of superiority, do not grudge employing all
the power at your command; excess of victory[14] never yet caused any
conqueror one pang of remorse.

When attacking a superior force, send in only your best units so that most
will be able to escape alive during the inevitable retreat. --Devin.

Surprise can psychologically paralize the enemy. --Devin.

Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and
die. --Xenophon on discipline.

Without pains applied to bring the matter to perfection, the best theories
in the world, the most correct conclusions, will be fruitless. --Xenophon.

The Lacedaemonian cavalry only began to be famous with the introduction of
foreign troopers. --Xenophon.

Hiring bodies of foreign mercenaries evidently sparks competition and
professionalism. --Devin.

In fact  Need contributes greatly to enthusiasm. --Xenophon.

If you seek for an energetic infantry to support your cavalry, you will
find it in a corps composed of individuals whose hatred for the foe is
naturally intense.

With the daily or hourly occurrence of perils which must betide him, his
wonderment will diminish. --Xenophon.

With physical enervation follows apace enfeeblement of soul. --Socrates, on
repetitive employment.

In some states, especially those reputed to be warlike, no citizen is
allowed to exercise any mechanical craft at all. --Socrates.

All the ploughing in the world were but small gain in the absence of those
who should protect the fields. --Socrates.

But for the tillers of the soil the warriors themselves could scarcely
live. --Socrates.

This also I deem a great testimony to a ruler's worth, that his followers
follow him of their own free will, and when the moment of danger comes
refuse to part from him. --Socrates.

The dog keeps off the depredations of wild animals from fruits and flocks,
and creates security in the solitary place. --Socrates.

Cultivation is also an athletic art, for among farmers are men fitted to
run, hurl the spear, and leap with the best. --Devin paraphrase of
Socrates.

Often enough in war it is surer and safer to quest for food with sword and
buckler than with all the instruments of husbandry. --Socrates.

While agriculture prospers, all other arts alike are vigorous and strong,
but where the land is forced to remain desert,[22] the spring that feeds
the other arts is dried up. --Socrates.

The base mechanic arts destroy the bodies of the artisans and crush their
spirits. --Devin paraphrase.

She married me before she was quite fifteen.  All her life she had been
most carefully brought up to see and hear as little as possible, and to ask
the fewest questions. --Devin paraphrase of Ischomachus.

For a woman to bide tranquilly at home rather than roam abroad is no
dishonour. --Ischomachus.

For a man to remain indoors instead of devoting himself to outdoor pursuits
is a thing discreditable. --Ischomachus.

It is not through excellence of outward form, but by reason of the lustre
of virtues shed forth upon the life of man, that increase is given to
things beautiful and good. --Ischomachus.

There is nothing in human life so serviceable, nought so beautiful as
order. --Ischomachus.

God threatens and chastises sluggards. --A Phoenician pilot's mate quoted
by Ischomachus.

A beauty like the cadence of sweet music dwells even in pots and pans (when
they are) set out in neat array. --Ischomachus, on order.

She was wearing high-heeled shoes in order to seem taller than she was by
nature. --Ischomachus.

Unless a man first discover what he needs to do, and seriously study to
bring the same to good effect, the gods have placed prosperity[6] beyond
his reach. --Ischomachus.

Those who amass wealth will only gain endless trouble in its management.
--Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

Drunkenness creates forgetfulness of everything which needs to be done.
--Ischomachus.

The sluggard (person who sleeps too much) with his eyes shut cannot do
himself or see that others do what is right. --Ischomachus.

Some natures hunger after praise no less than others crave for meats and
drinks. --Ischomachus.

A good workman cannot help but feel depressed when villains who will
neither labour nor face danger when occasion calls receive the same reward
as himself. --Devin paraphrase of Ischomachus.

Many a man, beholding how the just grow ever wealthier than the unjust,
albeit harbouring in his heart some covetous desires, is constant still to
virtue. To abstain from unjust dealing is (becomes) engrained in him.
--Ischomachus.

If there be one point in which the man who thirsts for honour differs from
him who thirsts for gain, it is, I think, in willingness to toil, face
danger, and abstain from shameful gains--for the sake of honour only and
fair fame. --Ischomachus.

Who is able to implant a firm persuasion in the minds of all his soldiers:
follow him they must and will through fire, if need be, or into the jaws of
death. --Ischomachus.

A great man in every deed he is who can achieve great ends by resolution
(on the part of his followers) rather than brute force. --Ischomachus.

The master's eye is aptest to elicit energy to issue beautiful and good
(men do their best work under the eye of the master). --Devin.)
--Ischomachus.

No one cares to speak evil against a monarch to his face. --Xenophon.

That praise alone is sweetest which is breathed from lips of free men
absolutely free. --Xenophon.

doubtless some break in the monotony gives a fillip of pleasure.
--Xenophon.

For highest satisfaction, amorous deeds need love's strong passion.
--Xenophon.

Love delights not to swoop on ready prey.  He needs the lure of
expectation. --Xenophon.

Just as a man who has never tasted thirst can hardly be said to know the
joy of drinking, so he who has never tasted Passion is ignorant of
Aphrodite's sweetest sweets. --Xenophon.

Plots and conspiracies against despotic rulers are oftenest hatched by
those who most of all pretend to love them. --Xenophon.

It is the very essence of the crowd to rush wildly to conjecture touching
the happiness or wretchedness of people at first sight. --Xenophon.

The tyrant cannot stir without setting his foot on hostile territory.
--Xenophon.

The tyrant is not out of danger, even when he has passed the portals of his
palace. Nay! there of all places most, he feels, he must maintain the
strictist watch. --Xenophon.

For the tyrant, the day of peace will never dawn. --Xenophon.

Friendship is the greatest boon, the sweetest happiness which men may
taste. --Xenophon.

Of tyrants, many have been murderers of their own children, many by their
children murdered. Many brothers have been murderers of one another in
contest for the crown; many a monarch has been done to death by the wife of
his bosom, or even by his own familiar friend, by him of whose affection he
was proudest.  How can you suppose, then, that being so hated by those whom
nature predisposes and law compels to love him, the tyrant should be loved
by any living soul beside?  --Xenophon.

Cities bestow large honours on the slayer of a tyrant. --Xenophon.

The criterion of enough, or too much, is not fixed by mere arithmetic, but
relatively to the needs of the individual. --Xenophon.

Nobody believes that anything a tyrant gives him is indeed his own, until
he is well beyond the donor's jurisdiction. --Xenophon.

All living creatures alike take pleasure in meats and drinks, in sleep and
sexual joys. Only the love of honour is implanted neither in unreasoning
brutes nor universally in man. But they in whose hearts the passion for
honour and fair fame has fallen like a seed, these unmistakably are
separated most widely from the brutes. These may claim to be called men,
not human beings merely. --Xenophon.

Herein lies the supreme misery of despotic power; it is not possible even
to be quit of it. --Xenophon.

If you overcome your friends by kindness, your enemies shall nevermore
prevail against you. --Xenophon.

Whoever heard of reconciliation with a traitor? --Critias.

Death and destruction are concomitants of constitutional changes and
revolution. --Critias.

When the age is fully ripe for any great discovery, it is rare that it does
not occur to more than a single mind. --E. Anthony.

Contempt for one's enemy will infuse a kind of strength in battle.
--Agesilaus.

It is in your power today to bow your head to no man, to call no man
master, to reap the produce of your own domain in freedom--freedom, which
to my mind is more precious than all riches. --Agesilaus.

Every event in history has its roots somewhere in earlier history, and we
need but dig deep enough to find them. --Logan Marshall.

When a great thinker comes into the world all things are at risk.
--Emerson.

all the world is paying the cost of the folly of Europe. --The New York
World (1914).

From small causes great events may rise. --Logan Marshall.

In times of peace prepare for war. (military maxim quoted by Logan
Marshall).

Wars of pure charity are rarely among the virtuous acts of nations. --Logan
Marshall.

An army marches on its stomach. --Napoleon Bonaparte.

The distinction between trained and untrained soldiers rapidly disappears
in a war of long continuance. --Logan Marshall.

Experience in the field is a lesson far superior to any gained in mock
warfare, and the taking part in a few battles will teach the art of warfare
to an extent surpassing that of years of marching and counter-marching upon
the training field. --Logan Marshall.

War, whatever its issue, is ruinous to commerce and to the credit on which
commerce depends. --A. J. Balfour.

There are two ways in which a hostile country can be crushed. It can be
conquered or it can be starved. --A. J. Balfour.

1884 The Nile expedition for the rescue of General Gordon.

The man who works himself is ineffective in great things unless he has the
gift to choose the men who can work for him and with him. --T. P. O'Connor.

He never thinks of asking a subordinate whether he has done the job he has
given him; he takes that for granted, knowing his man; and he never worries
his subordinates. --T. P. O'Connor.

Ambition, unrestrained by caution, uncontrolled by moderation, has its
inevitable end. --Logan Marshall.

Victory comes to the army that makes the fewest blunders. --Logan Marshall.

The two essential qualities of the head of a state --firmness and judgment.
--Logan Marshall.

Political changes move slowly in times of peace, rapidly in times of war.
--Logan Marshall.

Let the Turks now carry away their abuses in the only possible manner - by
carrying off themselves. --Gladstone.

War not only has not passed away, but we have it with us in more frightful
form than ever before. --Logan Marshall.

Many a horse will fall short at first, not from inability, but from want of
experience. --Xenophon.

where we are permitted to work through our natural faculties, there let us
by all means apply them. But in things which are hidden, let us seek to
gain knowledge from above by divination. --Socrates.

The gods know all things--both the things that are said and the things that
are done, and the things that are counselled in the silent chambers of the
heart. Moreover, they are present everywhere, and bestow signs upon man
concerning all the things of man. --Socrates.

Appointing state officers by ballot is a principle which no one would care
to apply in selecting a pilot or a flute player or in any similar case
where a mistake would be far less disastrous than in matters political.
--Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

The victim of violence hates with vindictiveness as one from whom something
precious has been stolen, while the willing subject of persuasion is ready
to kiss the hand which has done him a service. --Xenophon.

Compulsion is not the method of him who makes wisdom his study, but of him
who wields power untempered by reflection. --Xenophon.

The man who ventures on violence needs the support of many to fight his
battles, while he whose strength lies in persuasiveness triumphs
single-handed. --Xenophon.

How ridiculous it were to do men to death rather than turn to account the
trusty service of the living. --Xenophon.

It is with the workings of the soul as with those of the body.  Want of
exercise of the organ leads to inability of function, here bodily, there
spiritual, so that we can neither do the things that we should nor abstain
from the things we should not.  And that is why fathers keep their sons,
however temperate they may be, out of the reach of wicked men, considering
that if the society of the good is a training in virtue so also is the
society of the bad its dissolution. --Xenophon.

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and
repetition.  So is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in
the heart that has ceased to value them. --Xenophon.

Many a man who has found frugality easy whilst passion was cold, no sooner
falls in love than he loses the faculty at once, and in his prodigal
expenditure of riches he will no longer withhold his hand from gains which
in former days were too base to invite his touch. --Xenophon.

All beautiful and noble things are the result of constant practice and
training. --Xenophon.

Where the teacher is not pleasing to the pupil there is no education.
--Xenophon.

Mere goodness of disposition is nothing.  Those only are worthy of honour
who combine with the knowledge of what is right the faculty of expounding
it. --Socrates.

Lack of intelligence means lack of worth. --Socrates.

No work is a disgrace.  Slackness of work is the disgrace.  --Hesiod.

Those who are useful neither in word nor deed, who are incapable of
rendering assistance in time of need to the army or the state or the people
itself, be they never so wealthy, ought to be restrained, and especially if
to incapacity they add effrontery. --Socrates.

Avoid the common snare of over indulgence.  Avoid taking what would allure
one to eat if not hungry or to drink if not thirsty. Such things are
ruinous to the constitution, bad for stomachs, brains, and soul alike.
--Socrates.

Hold strongly aloof from the fascination of fair forms: once lay finger on
these and it is not easy to keep a sound head and a sober mind. --Socrates.

And what do you expect your fate to be after that kiss? Let me tell you. On
the instant you will lose your freedom, the indenture of your bondage will
be signed; it will be yours on compulsion to spend large sums on hurtful
pleasures; you will have scarcely a moment's leisure left for any noble
study; you will be driven to concern yourself most zealously with things
which no man, not even a madman, would choose to make an object of concern.
--Socrates.

and do you imagine that these lovely creatures infuse nothing with their
kiss, simply because you do not see the poison? Do you not know that this
wild beast which men call beauty in its bloom is all the more terrible than
the tarantula in that the insect must first touch its victim, but this at a
mere glance of the beholder, without even contact, will inject something
into him--yards away-- which will make him mad? --Socrates.

And these things around and about us, enormous in size, infinite in number,
owe their orderly arrangement, as you suppose, to some vacuity of wit?
--Socrates.

The wisest and most perdurable of human institutions--be they cities or
tribes of men--are ever the most God-fearing. --Socrates.

If a war came upon us and we wished to choose a man who would best help us
to save ourselves and to subdue our enemy, I suppose we should scarcely
select one whom we knew to be a slave to his belly, to wine, or lust, and
prone to succumb to toil or sleep. --Socrates.

No one cares for a guest who evidently takes more pleasure in the wine and
the viands than in the friends beside him. --Socrates.

He who receives money from this or that chance donor sets up over himself a
master, and binds himself to an abominable slavery. --Socrates.

The sharper the appetite the less the need of sauces, the keener the thirst
the less the desire for out-of-the-way drinks. --Socrates.

Even a weakling by nature may, by dint of exercise and practice, come to
outdo a giant who neglects his body. --Socrates.

Joy is not to him who feels that he is doing well in nothing--it belongs to
one who is persuaded that things are progressing with him, be it tillage or
the working of a vessel, or any of the thousand and one things on which a
man may chance to be employed. --Socrates.

To have no wants at all is, to my mind, an attribute of Godhead; to have as
few wants as possible the nearest approach to Godhead; and as that which is
divine is mightiest, so that is next mightiest which comes closest to the
divine. --Socrates.

There is no better road to renown than the one by which a man becomes good
at that wherein he desires to be reputed good. --Socrates.

Suppose a man wishes to be thought a good general or a good pilot though he
is really nothing of the sort.  Let us picture to our minds how it will
fare with him. Of two misfortunes one: either with a strong desire to be
thought proficient in these matters he will fail to get others to agree
with him, which will be bad enough, or he will succeed, with worse result;
since it stands to reason that anyone appointed to work a vessel or lead an
army without the requisite knowledge will speedily ruin a number of people
whom he least desires to hurt, and will make but a sorry exit from the
stage himself. --Socrates.

Of all imposters he surely is the biggest who can delude people into
thinking that he is fit to lead the state when all the while he is a
worthless creature. --Socrates.

The majority of men are quite untrained to wrestle with cold and heat.
--Socrates.

States claim to treat their rulers precisely as I treat my domestic slaves.
--Aristippus.

Set not thine heart on soft things, thou knave, lest thou light upon the
hard. --Ephicharmus.

In your nurture I have gauged your nature. --Prodicus.

Among things that are lovely and of good report, not one have the gods
bestowed upon mortal men apart from toil and pains. --Prodicus.

Would you be loved by your friends, you must benefit these friends.
--Prodicus.

Do you desire to be honoured by the state, you must give the state your
aid. --Prodicus.

Is it your ambition to be potent as a warrior, able to save your friends
and to subdue your foes, then must you learn the arts of war from those who
have the knowledge, and practise their application in the field when
learned. --Prodicus.

Would you e'en be powerful of limb and body, then must you habituate limbs
and body to obey the mind, and exercise yourself with toil and sweat.
--Prodicus.

That sweetest sound of all, the voice of praise. --Prodicus.

Young men impotent of body, and old men witless in mind. --Prodicus on the
unvirtuous.

They lie not down in oblivion with dishonour, but bloom afresh--their
praise resounded on the lips of men for ever. --Prodicus.

When any one has been kindly treated, and has it in his power to requite
the kindness but neglects to do so, men call him ungrateful. --Lamprocles.

No matter who confers the kindness, friend or foe, the recipient should
endeavour to requite it, failing which he is a wrongdoer. --Lamprocles.

You do not suppose that human beings produce children for the sake of
carnal pleasure merely; were this the motive, street and bordell are full
of means to quit them of that thrall; whereas nothing is plainer than the
pains we take to seek out wives who shall bear us the finest children. With
these we wed, and carry on the race. --Socrates.

It is a great vantage-ground towards friendship to have sprung from the
same loins and to have been suckled at the same breasts, since even among
beasts a certain natural craving and sympathy springs up between creatures
reared together. --Socrates.

A man who has brothers commands more respect from the rest of the world
than the man who has none, and who must fight his own battles. --Socrates.

The bad, as I see, cannot be friends with one another. For how can such
people, the ungrateful, or reckless, or covetous, or faithless, or
incontinent, adhere together as friends? Without hesitation I set down the
bad as born to be foes not friends, and as bearing the birthmark of
internecine hate. --Critobulus.

One good man is better worth your benefiting than a dozen knaves, since a
little kindness goes a long way with the good, but with the base the more
you give them the more they ask for. --Socrates.

I never heard of any one who hated his admirers. --Critobulus.

A kindly feeling springs up in my heart towards any one whom I conceive to
be kindly disposed to me. --Critobulus.

A man's virtue is to excel his friends in kindness and his foes in
hostility. --Socrates.

There is but one road, the shortest, safest, best, and it is simply this:
In whatsoever (skill) you desire to be deemed good, endeavour to be good.
--Socrates.

Of all the virtues (fields of expertise) namable among men, consider, and
you will find there is not one but may be increased by learning and
practice. --Socrates.

When you find yourself an old man, expenses will not diminish, and yet no
one will care to pay you for the labour of your hands. --Socrates.

You should avoid censorious persons and attach yourself to the considerate
and kind-hearted, and in all your affairs accept with a good grace what you
can and decline what you feel you cannot do. Whatever it be, do it heart
and soul, and make it your finest work. --Socrates.

It is the function of every leader to make those happy whom he may be
called upon to lead. --Socrates.

The best teachers are those who have the freest command of thought and
language. --Socrates.

If a man knows what is required of him and has the skill to provide it,
then he will be a good chief and director, no matter what business he finds
himself in. --Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

Socrates' prescription for managerial success:
1. Procure ready obedience.
2. Assign tasks to those best qualified to do them.
3. Punish the bad and reward the good.
4. Win the kindly feeling of your subordinates.
5. Win the adherence of your supporters and allies.
6. Be a good guardian of your charges.
7. Be painstaking and prodigal of toil in all your doings.
8. Get the upper hand over your enemies.
9. Guard against all that tends toward defeat, and enthusiastically seek
out and apply everything conducive to success, because nothing is as
expensive as failure and nothing as profitable as success.

No matter what business you are in, knowing how to handle others is the key
to success. --Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

For if boldness be the parent of carelessness, laxity, and insubordination,
it is the part of fear to make people more disposed to application,
obedience, and good order. --Socrates.

It is high time also to explain by what means we are to rekindle in the
hearts of our countrymen the old fires--the passionate longing for antique
valour, for the glory and the wellbeing of the days of old. --Pericles.

Supposing we wished them to lay claim to certain material wealth now held
by others, we could not better stimulate them to lay hands on the objects
coveted than by showing them that these were ancestral possessions to which
they had a natural right. --Socrates, on the rekindling of military spirit.

But since our object is that they should set their hearts on virtuous
pre-eminence, we must prove to them that such headship combined with virtue
is an old time-honoured heritage which pertains to them beyond all others,
and that if they strive earnestly after it they will soon out-top the
world. --Socrates.

The oldest of our ancestors whose names are known to us were also the
bravest of heroes. --Socrates.

I think we are victims of our own success. Like some athlete, whose facile
preponderance in the arena has betrayed him into laxity until he eventually
succumbs to punier antagonists, so we Athenians, in the plenitude of our
superiority, have neglected ourselves and are become degenerate.
--Socrates.

In military service, where, if anywhere, sobreity and temperance,
orderliness and good discipline are needed. --Pericles.
Everyone deliberately chooses what, within the limits open to him, he
considers most conducive to his interest, and acts accordingly. --Socrates.

The wise alone can perform the things which are beautiful and good.  They
that are unwise cannot, but even if they try they fail. --Socrates.

When anyone is faring ill people's sympathies are touched, they rush to the
aid of the unfortunate; but when fortune smiles on others, they are somwhow
pained. --Socrates.

A man who does nothing well and well in nothing is neither good for
anything nor dear to God. --Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

The best and most valuable kind of man in the sight of God is he who does
well what he knows how to do (develops and applies well some particular
kind of expertise). --Devin paraphrase of Socrates.

As through some chink or crevice, there pierces through the countenance of
a man, through the very posture of his body as he stands or moves, a
glimpse of his nobility and freedom, or again of something in him low and
grovelling--the calm of self-restraint, and wisdom, or the swagger of
insolence and vulgarity. --Socrates.

The sweetest viands presented to a man before he wants them are apt to
prove insipid, or, to one already sated, even nauseous; but create hunger,
and even coarser stuff seems honey-sweet. --Socrates.

There is no contest of any sort, nor any transaction, in which you will be
the worse off for being well prepared in body; and in fact there is nothing
which men do for which the body is not a help. --Socrates.

It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he
has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in
the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are
withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to
blaze forth unbidden. --Socrates.

"On the score of pleasure, economy, and health, total abstinence has much
in its favour. --Socrates.

The most highly gifted nature stands most in need of training and
education. --Socrates.

Without instruction it is impossible to draw the line of demarcation
between what is gainful and what is hurtful in conduct. --Socrates.

He who knows not what he does, who chooses amiss and fails in what he puts
his hands to, not only incurs loss and suffers chastisement through his
blunders, but step by step loses reputation and becomes a laughing-stock,
and in the end is doomed to a life of dishonour and contempt. --Socrates.

Nay, these are matters which perhaps, through excessive confidence in your
knowledge of them, you have failed to examine into. --Socrates.

There is nothing serviceable to the life of man worth speaking of but owes
its fabrication to fire. --Socrates.

Within the ranks of the People will be found the greatest amount of
ignorance, disorderliness, rascality--poverty acting as a stronger
incentive to base conduct, not to speak of lack of education and ignorance,
traceable to the lack of means which afflicts the average of mankind.
--Xenophon.

Rage must never override obedience to law. --The Spartans.

An honourable death is preferable to an ignoble life. --Lycurgus.

Salvation, it would seem, attends on virtue far more frequently than on
cowardice. --Xenophon.

Men who will stand and fight are less apt to get killed than those who are
quick to turn tail and run. --Devin paraphrase.

It would be difficult to find any point in military matters omitted by the
Lacedaemonians which seems to demand attention. --Xenophon.

The business of the bureaucrat is to force MY camel through the eye of HIS
needle while the whole trackless desert is waiting. --Devin.

Nobody understands quantum theory. --Richard Fineman.

Scientists depend on funding, and they become frightened of anything
controversial. --J. Marvin Hernden.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how
improbable, must be the truth. --Arthur Conan Doyle.

Overpopulation is relative, as old as the famine and war it raises, and is
immortally reborn. --Poul Anderson, in "Star of the Sea."

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your
facts is another.  --John Burroughs.

Unity, secrecy, and dispatch. --Alexander Hamilton.

As a panic at times affects a vast assemblage, with no one aware of its
origin, so a wave of hostile sentiment may sweep over vast communities
until the air is full of urgent demands for war with scarce a man knowing
why. --Logan Marshall.

Impulse is the sole ruling force where reason has ceased to act. --Logan
Marshall.

It was the pretext for a war already determined upon as soon as plausible
occasion offered. --Rear Admiral Mahan.

While the arts of construction have enormously developed, those of
destruction have fully kept pace with them; and the horrors of war have
enormously increased side by side with the benignities of peace. --Logan
Marshall.

God fights with the heaviest battalions. --Anonymous.

When you want arms take them from the enemy. --Simon Bolivar.

Negro blood has a message for the world. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means. --W.E.B.
Du Bois.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. --Byron.

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and
yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress. --Booker
Washington.

It is easier to do ill than well in the world. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose inter- ests are most nearly
touched,--criticism of writers by readers, --this is the soul of democracy
and the safeguard of modern society. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

The triumph of brute force and cunning over weakness and innocence.
--W.E.B. Du Bois.

It is, then, the strife of all honorable men of the twentieth century to
see that in the future competition of races the survival of the fittest
shall mean the triumph of the good, the beautiful, and the true; that we
may be able to preserve for future civilization all that is really fine and
noble and strong, and not continue to put a premium on greed and impudence
and cruelty. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

I freely acknowledged that it is possible, and sometimes best, that a
partially undeveloped people should be ruled by the best of their stronger
and better neighbors for their own good, until such time as they can start
and fight the world's battles alone. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

To lay any class of weak and despised people, be they white, black, or
blue, at the political mercy of their stronger, richer, and more
resourceful fellows, is a temptation which human nature seldom has
withstood and seldom will withstand. --W.E.B. Du Bois.

Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong. --W.E.B.
Du Bois.

The price of culture is a Lie. --W.E.B. Du Bois on the hypocrisy of
submission.

Liberty, Justice, and Right--is marked "For White People Only. --W.E.B. Du
Bois.

A land whose freedom is to us a mockery and whose liberty a lie. --W.E.B.
Du Bois.

A tipsy man is never interesting. --John Philip Sousa.

She, with imagination greater than reasoning power, at once saw a Tuscan
beauty and Diotti mutually pledging their love with their lives. --John
Philip Sousa.

We must know the whole play in order to properly act  our parts. --Kakuzo
Okakura.

One cannot listen to different pieces of music at the same time, a real
comprehension of the  beautiful being possible only through concentration
upon some central motive. --Kakuzo Okakura.

The masters are immortal, for their loves and fears live in us over  and
over again. --Kakuzo Okakura.

His works may be nearer science, but are further from  humanity. --Kakuzo
Okakura.

The name of the artist is more important to them than the quality of the
work. --Kakuzo Okakura.

Scratch the sheepskin and the wolf within us will soon show his teeth.
--Kakuzo Okakura.

A doctor always seeks to prolong the troubles of his victims. --Kakuzo
Okakura.

Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest evil of present-day methods
of training children. --Ellen Key.

It is a natural instinct of self-preservation which causes the child to bar
the educator from his innermost nature. --Ellen Key.

The sound instincts of the child are dulled. --Ellen Key.

We overcome natural strength by weak means and obtain artificial virtues
which will not stand the tests which life imposes. --Ellen Key on
upbringing.

The ways of injuring the child are infinite, while the ways of being useful
to him are few. --Ellen Key.

A hard or even mild pressure towards uniformity can make the whole of
childhood a torment. --Ellen Key.

Not a single savage passion has been overcome in humanity. --Ellen Key.

New types with higher ideals,--travellers on unknown paths, thinkers of yet
unthought thoughts, people capable of the crime of inaugurating new
ways,--such types rarely come into existence among those who are well
brought up. --Ellen Key.

He [man] wants the feelings, thoughts, and judgments already stamped with
approval to be reproduced by each new generation. --Ellen Key.

An artificial emotion is always and everywhere worthless. --Ellen Key.

Children have a right to have feelings, or not have them, and to have them
as undisturbed as grown people. --Ellen Key.

The only effective admonitions are short and infrequent ones. --Ellen Key.

Children who are deluged with directions and religious devotions, who
receive an ounce of morality in every cup of joy, are most certain to be
those who will revolt against all this. --Ellen Key.

When people come themselves to train others they forget all their own
personal experience. --Ellen Key.

The school must get the smaller part, the home the larger part. --Ellen
Key.

A passionate desire for the realities of life, for individual action at
one's own risk and responsibility, instead of being, as is now the case, at
home and in the school, the object of another's care. --Ellen Key.

All the means usually adopted now to protect the child from physical and
psychical dangers and inconveniences, will have to be removed. --Ellen Key.

Double entry morality, one morality for the child, and one for the adult.
--Ellen Key.

Parents surrender their children to schools in those years in which they
should influence their minds. --Ellen Key.

Getting old is no necessity; it is only a bad habit. --Ellen Key.

There is such a thing as eternal youth, which a soul can win as a prize for
its whole work of inner development. --Ellen Key.

No wonder his song was a prophecy of good cheer for the future, for
happiness made up the whole of his past. --Gene Stratton-Porter.

A universe where logic counts for so little and sentiment and the impulse
of the heart for so much. --Gene Stratton-Porter.  --Alan Seeger.

The power of the powerful exists only by the weakness of the weak. --Joe.

They                          were products, like everything, of the past.
--John Pilger.

There's a sucker born every minute. --Dr. Erny Portner, of Honolulu.

You can't buy health off a shelf. --Dr. Erny Portner, of Honolulu.

Free people will set the course of History. --George Bush Jr. Every human
life is sacred.  No life should be started as an experiment. --George Bush
Jr. Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by free people.
--George Bush Jr. The course of this nation does not depend on the
decisions of others. --George Bush Jr. Different threats require different
strategies. --George Bush Jr. All people have a right to elect their own
government and determine their own destiny. --George Bush Jr. Your enemy is
not surrounding your country: your enemy is RULING your country. --George
Bush Jr. Your training has prepared you: your honor will guide you.
--George Bush Jr. Victory is never free from sorrow. --George Bush Jr. The
liberty we promise is not the gift of America to the world: it is God's
gift to humanity. --George Bush Jr. A loving God behind all of life and
behind all of history. --George Bush Jr.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from
oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that
will reach to himself. --Thomas Payne.

Every deception is ultimately evil. --Devin.

In some intellectual circles, it is considered naive or foolish to be
guided by moral principles. About this form of idiocy, I will have nothing
to say. --Noam Chomsky.

people who are trying to escape the confines of indoctrination and to
understand something about the real world in which they live; --Noam
Chomsky.

how I can most effectively use my energy, my talents, and my privilege.
--Noam Chomsky.

the impact of U.S. foreign policy on millions of people throughout the
world is enormous, and furthermore these policies substantially increase
the probability of superpower conflict and global catastrophe. --Noam
Chomsky.

while many people here do excellent and important work concerning crucial
domestic issues, very few concerned themselves in the same way and with the
same depth of commitment to foreign policy issues. --Noam Chomsky.

it is best to tell people that which they least want to hear, to take up
the least popular causes, --Noam Chomsky.

The people never give up freedom except under some delusion." --James
Madison.

They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
will end up with neither liberty nor safety. --BenFranklin paraphrased by
Trimble.

In the present world, mankind falls into two basic classes: those who
reverence reality just as they find it, and those who have no reverence
whatsoever for what is real but instead attempt to impose one brand or
another of artificial reality upon the world.  And between these two
essential types lies a continuum of manipulators ever willing to twist
reality a little more or a little less depending on their circumstances,
delusions, inhibitions, and passions. --Chaumont Devin.

these intellectual horizons are far more remote than was heretofore
imagined. --Noam Chomsky.

Phenomena can be so familiar that we really do not see them at all. --Noam
Chomsky.

Languages may differ as to whether they express the grammatical relations
formally by inflection or word order. --Noam Chomsky.

Languages will differ very little, despite considerable diversity in
superficial realization, when we discover their deeper structures and
unearth their fundamental mechanisms and principles. --Noam Chomsky.

Hitlerism, militarism, and communism were defeated by free people. --George
Bush Jr.

The course of this nation does not depend on the decisions of others.
--George Bush Jr.

Different threats require different strategies. --George Bush Jr.

All people have a right to elect their own government and determine their
own destiny. --George Bush Jr.

Your enemy is not surrounding your country: your enemy is RULING your
country. --George Bush Jr.

Your training has prepared you: your honor will guide you. --George Bush
Jr.

Victory is never free from sorrow. --George Bush Jr.

The liberty we promise is not the gift of America to the world: it is God's
gift to humanity. --George Bush Jr.

A loving God behind all of life and behind all of history. --George Bush
Jr.

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable
beyond all living things! --Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein, by Mary
Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley.

What attribute, after all, has man which in its ultimate analysis is not
possessed by the lowest animals or by the vegetable creation, even?
--Origin and Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile.
Every action is but a response to an adequate stimulus. --Origin and Nature
of Emotions, by George W. Crile.
What attribute, after all, has man which in its ultimate analysis is not
possessed by the lowest animals or by the vegetable creation, even?  From
the ameba, on through all the stages of animal existence, every action is
but a response to an adequate stimulus. --Origin and Nature of Emotions, by
George W. Crile.

The average length of life in any species is the sum of the years of
immaturity, plus the years of female fertility, plus the adolescent years
of the offspring. --Origin and Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile.
I postulate that the body is itself a mechanism responding in every part to
the adequate stimuli given it from without by the environment of the
present and from within by the environment of the past, the memory of which
is stored in the central battery of the mechanism-- the brain. --Origin and
Nature of Emotions, by George W. Crile.
who are so ridiculous as those who talk for the sake of talking, save only
those who write for the sake of writing? --Samuel Butler.

There are some things in which experience blunts the mental vision, as well
as others in which it sharpens it. --Samuel Butler.

I have not checked my pen, but let it run on even as my heart directed it.
--Samuel Butler.

"Truth is not a popular thing." --Greig Win.

The profoundest instinct in man is to war against the truth; that is,
against the Real. He shuns facts from his infancy. His life is a perpetual
evasion. Miracle, chimera and to-morrow keep him alive. He lives on fiction
and myth. It is the Lie that makes him free. Animals alone are given the
privilege of lifting the veil of Isis; men dare not. The animal, awake, has
no fictional escape from the Real because he has no imagination. Man,
awake, is compelled to seek a perpetual escape into Hope, Belief, Fable,
Art, God, Socialism, Immortality, Alcohol, Love. --Jack London.

It fails to get hold of me, just as I fail to get hold of it. --Jack
London.

If all men had the utter contempt for lawyers I have, there would be few of
them round. --John Morris.

I never form any attachment to worthless individuals, either men or women.
--John Morris.

Our government was founded to set an example of simplicity, economy, and
liberty. --John Morris.

All those who turned their backs on evil became Hitler's accomplices.
--Howard Bloom.

Nature loves those who defeat it: Nature loves those who defy it. --Howard
Bloom.

The real you is the passionate self. --Howard Bloom.

I am not afraid of men who work. --Mr. Fogerty, in John Morris'
autobiography.

(I am) made for the little flash between the darknesses which men call
life. --Jack London.

Sad it is to end love with lies.  Sadder still is it to begin love with
lies. --Jack London.

We are all prone to think there is something wrong with the mental
processes of the man who disagrees with us. --Jack London.

A physicist has to keep very clear in his mind what he knows, what he
thinks he knows, what he's suspicious of, and what he wants. --Michael
Martin Needo or Needle.

We have a need to explain what Islam is all about. --Mohamar Mahatir, who
obviously intended these words in a way different from how I would intend
them.

Knowledge is power: why share it? --John Lear (son of Lear Jet inventor).

It takes a clever man to turn cynic, and a wise man to be clever enough not
to. --Frederick Nitze.

The following written by P. J. Plogger:
There's nothing like distance to keep infatuation under control.
When you're a small child, everything is new.  You don't know what's out of
the ordinary until you learn what's ordinary to others.
In a lonely universe circumscribed by mortality, life-long companionship is
almost too much to hope for.

Believe those who are seeking the truth.  Doubt those who find it. --Andre
Geed.

Lies are the mother of evil. --Dennis Praeger (12/15/03 broadcast).

She gave me a fierce hug. --William Barton.

A pathetic little life that showed no promise of ever getting better.
--William Barton.

Rats can't scuttle from a sinking ship faster than fashionable folk from a
friend in trouble. --H. Rider Haggard.
All astronauts should be women because they weigh less and have more sense.
--Edward Teller.
In the days just before menstruation, women are often mentally ill and
prone to suicide or crime.
Nature is apt to make a mock of those who deny Nature. -- H. Rider Haggard.
mind is greater than matter, while spirit is greater than mind. --H. Rider
Haggard.
The child is father to the man. --H. Rider Haggard.
The colt that seems to break its heart at the cut of a whip, will hobble at
last to the knacker unmoved by a shower of blows. --H. Rider Haggard.
It is the nature of us women to worship those who master us. --H. Rider
Haggard.
Different personalities actuate us at different times. --H. Rider Haggard.
when I look back upon my past, I can scarcely see the scanty flowers of
wisdom that decorate its path because of the fat, ugly trees of error by
which it is overshadowed. --H. Rider Haggard.
all joy grows from the root of pain. --H. Rider Haggard.
If it is a comfort to share our joys, it is a still greater comfort to
share our torments. --H. Rider Haggard.
Those who pit their intelligences against the forces of Nature, and try to
search out her secrets, become humble. --H. Rider Haggard.
The world has been a place of tribulation to me, and it is sick hearts that
dream. --H. Rider Haggard.
Good fortunes never come singly. --H. Rider. Haggard.
I will not sail under false colors. --H. Rider Haggard.
For who ... would think that person otherwise than mad who dared to
translate into action, and on earth to set up as a ruling star, that faith
which day by day their lips professed. --H. Rider Haggard.
Broken waters mirror nothing. --H. Rider Haggard.
To attempt to drag the last veil from the face of Truth in any of her
thousand shapes is surely a folly predoomed to failure. --H. Rider Haggard.
Very few inhabitants of this earth can attain either to complete belief or
to its absolute opposite. --H. Rider Haggard.
that intolerable vanity which so often marks men who have nothing
whatsoever about which to be vain. --H. Rider Haggard.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
--Leo Tolstoy.
Others will help you if you help yourself. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
he who thinks new favours will cause great personages to forget old
injuries deceives himself. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they
offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the
flavour of them may last longer. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Men are always adverse to enterprises where difficulties can be seen.
--Nicolo Machiavelli.
It is the nature of men to be bound by the benefits they confer as much as
by those they receive. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
The chief foundations of all states, new as well as old or composite, are
good laws and good arms. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Above all things he (the prince) must keep his hands off the property of
others, because men more quickly forget the death of their father than the
loss of their patrimony. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
He who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to
be deceived. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Men generally judge more by the eye than by the hand. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
The vulgar are always taken by what a thing seems to be and by what comes
of it. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Hatred is acquired as much by good works as by bad ones, therefore.
--Nicolo Machiavelli.
It is certain that when the enemy comes upon you in divided cities you are
quickly lost, because the weakest party will always assist the outside
forces and the other will not be able to resist. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Irresolute princes, to avoid present dangers, generally follow the neutral
path, and are generally ruined. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Princes ought to avoid as much as possible being at the discretion of any
one. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself;
another which appreciates what others comprehended; and a third which
neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is
the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless. --Nicolo
Machiavelli.
It is a common defect in man not to make any provision in the calm against
the tempest. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
Deliverance is of no avail which does not depend upon yourself.  Those only
are reliable, certain, and durable that depend on yourself and your valour.
--Nicolo Machiavelli.
To be divided is to be destroyed. --H. Rider Haggard.
the silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever
woman to manage a fool. --Rudyard Kipling.
It is not the scarcity of money but the scarcity of men and talents which
makes a state weak. --Voltaire.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless
he has his freedom. --Malcolm X.
He who cannot be believed without [swearing by] God is already condemned.
--The Essenes.
Why are we afraid of death while we are pleased with the rest that we have
in sleep? --Eleazar of the Masada.
Such as do not prefer death before misery when it is in their power to die
must undergo misery on account of their own cowardice. --Eleazar of the
Masada.
Our hands are still at liberty, and have a sword in them. --Eleazar of the
Masada.
Let us die before we become the slaves of our enemies. --Eleazar of the
Masada.
Truth hath been what I have alone aimed at. --Josephus.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or your self confidence. --Robert Frost.
They that can give up essential liberty to attain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
"At the beginning of the 20th Century in India there were 30,000
varieties of rice documented," Mr Esquinas-Alcazar said. "Today there
are just 12 varieties. The others have been lost forever."
If architects built houses the way programmers build programs, the first
woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. --Gerald Wineberg,
1971.
tter world, you can't change this one. --Tad Williams.
Adding more programmers to a late software project makes it later. --Fred
Brooks.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it,
can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe
to do. -- Galileo Galilei
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives. --Aba Eban.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. --Carl Sagan.
Tis a splendid thing to live or die as a man. --Chaumont Devin.
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die. --Douglas MacArthur.
They will never believe the truth until it bites them directly in the arse.
--Lyman Stan Devin.
As I grow old I seek less for the truth from without me, and find more of
the truth from within me. --Jack London.
So long as there are sheep Nature will insist on beasts of prey. --H. G.
Wells.
There is a tide in the affairs of men    Which, taken at the flood, leads
on to fortune. -- Shakespeare, from Julius Caesar, act IV scene iii
Its not that I'm so smart: it's just that I stay with problems longer.
--Albert Einstein.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe. --Carl Sagan
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. --Thomas Jefferson.
You don't win a war by dying for your country. You win a war by making your
enemy die for his country. --Gen. George S. Patton.
[Civilization] debases before it can elevate. --H. Rider Haggard.
There is something so divine about all true love that there lurks a
conviction at the bottom of the hearts of most of us that it is better to
love, however much we suffer, than not to love at all. --H. Rider Haggard.
Men play false from passion or impulse, women from calculation. --H. Rider
Haggard.
Talk of being haunted by a dead person, it is infinitely worse being
haunted by a living one. --H. Rider Haggard.
If a woman had all the genius of Plato or all the learning of Solomon, it
would be forgotten at the touch of a baby's fingers. --H. Rider Haggard.
The past knows no corruption, but lives eternally in its frozen and
completed self. --H. Rider Haggard.
The human animal is a very complicated machine, and can conduct the working
of an extraordinary number of different interests and sets of ideas,
almost, if not entirely, simultaneously. --H. Rider Haggard.
Few people are altogether good or altogether bad; indeed it is probable
that the vast majority are neither good nor bad--they have not the strength
to be the one or the other. --H. Rider Haggard.
Even the most wicked men have their redeeming points and righteous
instincts, nor are their thoughts continually fixed upon iniquity. --H.
Rider Haggard.
Many women are by nature gifted with an extraordinary power of intuition
which fully makes up for their deficiency in reasoning force. --H. Rider
Haggard.
A passenger steamer is Cupid's own hot-bed. --H. Rider Haggard.
War is ever popular at first. --H. Rider Haggard.
Instantly, as is often the fashion of those who have Eastern blood in their
veins, d'Aguilar had made up his mind [about marrying this woman]. --H.
Rider Haggard.
When men get careless, the gods take advantage. --Linda Evans.
The  truly  dedicated  writer must be willing to risk ostracism or
persecution for his or her views. In times of crisis, it takes courage to
say what society doesn't want to hear. --Iris Chang, June 2003.
All languages are built upon a common grammar, substantially the same in
all languages, even though it may undergo in them accidental variations.
--Roger Bacon.
When you think something is someway, it isn't.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
--Edmund Burk.
If there is corruption, serious corruption, it always starts from those in
power. --Jose Ramos Horta.
When a marvellous occurrence is said to have happened everywhere, we may
feel sure that it never happened anywhere. --John Fiske.
One does not win the respect of the killers with bonbons. --Edgar Rice
Burroughs.
Where life teems death reaps his fullest harvest. Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Nor has man changed in his mental susceptibilities as the centuries have
advanced. --William Alexander Linn.
Man has ever been the same in his modes of thought and motives of action.
--Draper.
The human mind, instead of marching, merely marks time. --Macaulay.
Education and mental training have had no influence in shaping the
declarations of the leaders of new religious sects. --William Alexander
Linn.
The contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart
and mind. --Naturalist Henry Walter Bates.
The centralization of power is the worst thing for liberty. --Alex Jones.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Albert
Einstein.
Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
--Albert Einstein.
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal laws from
which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. --Albert Einstein.
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
--George Orwell.
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing.
--Edmund Burke.
Physics should be an exact science. Not a religion. --LaFrenier.
doubt is the origin of wisdom. -- Descartes.
The superiority of the bleak north to tropical regions, however, is only in
their social aspect, for I hold to the opinion that, although humanity can
reach an advanced state of culture only by battling with the inclemencies
of nature in high latitudes, it is under the equator alone that the perfect
race of the future will attain to complete fruition of man's beautiful
heritage, the earth. --Henry Walter Bates.
Intelligence does not mean wisdom. --Devin.
If you can't talk, you're not much of a human being. --Betty Blaire.
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and
catastrophe. --H. G. Wells.
Once a man has made up his mind about EVERYTHING it is useless to talk to
him about ANYTHING. --Devin.
People losing the war of ideas turn to guns. --Larry Fisher.
We are what we repeatedly do.  Excellence therefor is not an act but a
habit. --Aristotle.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to
reform. --Mark Twain.
Unless people control their population growth, none of the other things we
can do will ultimately matter. --Stanley Schmidt.
Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it
faithfully to one particular line of business. --Mark Twain.
Nothing stays alive when you don't want it to like the wearisome truth, and
nothing needs a gaggle of specialists in the ICU like a good pack of lies.
--Joe Devin.
Experience remains, of course, the sole criterion of the physical utility
of a mathematical construction. Albert Einstein.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. --Albert
Einstein.
In wildness is the preservation of the world. --Henry David Thoreau.
Those who love truth must ultimately abandon all the smoke and mirrors of
religion. --Joe Devin.
What can happen WILL happen, and what people allow to happen CAN happen.
--Joe.
It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the
misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. --Edgar Rice
Burroughs.
Race and sex and age each has its own distinctive scent. --Edgar Rice
Burroughs.
Apes do not understand such matters as souls and Flaming Gods. --Edgar Rice
Burroughs.
No two lions have identical characteristics, nor does the same lion
invariably act similarly under like circumstances. --Edgar Rice Burroughs.
One of the symptoms of madness is a revulsion of affection--objects of sane
love become the objects of insane hatred. --Edgar Rice Burroughs.
If something is really true, then even the rending of galaxies cannot
affect it one iota: the things we must assiduously defend are but the lies
we hold most dearly. --Devin.
Never irritate your friends when they are cleaning guns. --Devin.
Civilization is tissue thin. --Iris Chang.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,
or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction
of a new order of things. --Nicolo Machiavelli.
My political ideal is democrasy.  Everyone should be respected as an
individual, but no one idolized. --Albert Einstein.
everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing
himself. --Leo Tolstoy.
The masterpieces don't redeem the duds, and the duds do not diminish the
masterpieces. --Stanley Schmidt.
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the
second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent
ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.
--Ernest Hemingway.

Never attack your enemies where, when, or how they expect it. --Joe, after Charles Martel.
Keep adapting to your enemies. --Joe, after Charles Martel.
Always move faster than your opponents expect and do the unforseen. --Joe, after Charles Martel.
-1550 The late bronze age begins in the Near East.
Faith is believing what you know ain't so. --Mark Twain.
You are what you have become. --Joe Devin.
Since the cold of space could not kill the germs of life, it is in no way absurd to suppose that, under proper conditions, a germ may be transmitted from one planet to another. --Lucien Poincare, 1909.
Mathematics are sometimes a nuisance, and even a danger, when they induce us to affirm more than we know. --Henri Poincare.
Before the Indians can rule again, they must forget the bitter lessons and the degradation of ages.  In short, they must be educated, Ignatio. --Rider Haggard.
Many do foolishly those things which have been done by wise men. --William Van Ruysbroek.
Somebody needs to look at the enormity of what they're talkin' about. --Charley Powell (coal electric plant manager).
0950? The Khmer pillage the temple of Po Nagar and carried off the statue of the goddess.
0982 King Le Hoan of the DaiViet sends three ambassadors to Indrapura. They are detained.  Viet troops sack Indrapura and kill King Phê Mi Thuê.
Dead Men Tell No Tales. --Hiriam Breakes.
The ariki [and other chiefly ranks] and their tribes are the backbone of all nations in this world. For any nation to allow this backbone to be broken or to disappear would mean that they are relying on a foreign backbone for their survival. --Albert Henry (Cook Islands).
Who possess a greater degree of faith than wit. --William Marsden.
Their religious ideas were just strong enough to banish from their minds every moral sentiment. --William Marsden.
Alas! why should we respect the national existence of any community of Mahometans? --L. Trent Cave.
Civilization cries aloud for retribution on a race whose religion teaches them to regard us as "dogs." --L. Trent Cave.
 Brief periods of glory at Bagdad, Cairo, and Granada, should not protect those who are now slaves to the lowest vices that degrade human nature. --L. Trent Cave.
 No administrative reforms are at all practicable; their moral maladies have attacked the vital element. --L. Trent Cave.
In advocating a crusade against the Mahometan races, I believe I am recording the sentiments of millions of Europeans. --L. Trent Cave.
We have always in view the complete regeneration of the world, by our laws, our learning, and our religion. --Mrs. Richardson.
When the negroes have once adopted the Koran, no power on earth can induce them to change their opinions. --Ignatius Pallme.
Celibacy is a thing SO terrible that no man should ever even think about it unless the Almighty has given him a really hot woman with whom to share it. --Joe Devin.
Nations that think equality is more important than freedom have neither.  Nations that think freedom is more important than equality have a great deal of both. --Milton Freedman.
Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot. -- Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (
Time heals all wounds, but only if you are losing your memory. --Joe Devin.
Language is the true embodiement of human intelligence. --Corry Doctoro, Asimov's, June 2005.

What the world suffers from the most is just bad attitude. --Devin.