A Dominant Religion Is Never Ascetic.

Politeness Has Been Well Defined As Benevolence In Small Things.

To Sum Up The Whole, We Should Say That The Aim Of The Platonic Philosophy Was To Exalt Man Into A God.

We Never Could Clearly Understand How It Is That Egotism, So Unpopular In Conversation, Should Be So Popular In Writing.

Both In Individuals And In Masses Violent Excitement Is Always Followed By Remission, And Often By Reaction. We Are All Inclined To Depreciate Whatever We Have Overpraised, And, On The Other Hand, To Show Undue Indulgence Where We Have Shown Undue Rigor.

Those Who Seem To Load The Public Taste Are, In General, Merely Outrunning It In The Direction Which It Is Spontaneously Pursuing.