I Like A Man Who Grins When

I Wonder Whether Any Other Generation Has Seen Such Astounding Revolutions Of Data And Values As Those Through Which We Have Lived. Scarcely Anything Material Or Established Which I Was Brought Up To Believe Was Permanent And Vital, Has Lasted. Everything I Was Sure Or Taught To Be Sure Was Impossible, Has Happened.

It Is A Socialist Idea That Making Profits Is A Vice; I Consider The Real Vice Is Making Losses.

We Have A Lot Of Anxieties, And One Cancels Out Another Very Often.

The Element Of The Unexpected And The Unforeseeable Is What Gives Some Of Its Relish To Life And Saves Us From Falling Into The Mechanical Thralldom Of The Logicians.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.