All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy

The First Serious Consciousness Of Nature's Gesture - Her Attitude Towards Life-took Form Then As A Phantasm, A Nightmare, All Insanity Of Force. For The First Time, The Stage-scenery Of The Senses Collapsed; The Human Mind Felt Itself Stripped Naked, Vibrating In A Void Of Shapeless Energies, With Resistless Mass, Colliding, Crushing, Wasting, And Destroying What These Same Energies Had Created And Labored From Eternity To Perfect.

The Historian Must Not Try To Know What Is Truth, If He Values His Honesty; For If He Cares For His Truths, He Is Certain To Falsify His Facts.

Teachers Affect Eternity. There Is No Telling Where Their Influence Stops.

Just As The French Of The Nineteenth Century Invested Their Surplus Capital In A Railway-system In The Belief That They Would Makemoney By It In This Life, In The Thirteenth They Trusted Their Money To The Queen Of Heaven Because Of Their Belief In Her Power To Repay It With Interest In The Life To Come.

In The History Of The United States, There Is No Continuity At All. You Can Cut Through It Anywhere And Nothing On This Side Of The Cut Has Anything To Do With Anything On The Other Side.