Life Is Not A Thing Of Knowing

Life Is Not A Thing Of Knowing Only--nay, Mere Knowledge Has Properly No Place At All Save As It Becomes The Handmaiden Of Feeling And Emotions.

There Is Something Monstrous In Commands Couched In Invented And Unfamiliar Language; An Alien Master Is The Worst Of All. The Language Of The Law Must Not Be Foreign To The Ears Of Those Who Are To Obey It.

"i Beseech Ye In The Bowels Of Christ, Think That Ye May Be Mistaken." I Should Like To Have That Written Over The Portals Of Every Church, Every School, And Every Courthouse, And, May I Say, Of Every Legislative Body In The United States. I Should Like To Have Every Court Begin, "i Beseech Ye In The Bowels Of Christ, Think That We May Be Mistaken."

It Is Enough That We Set Out To Mold The Motley Stuff Of Life Into Some Form Of Our Own Choosing; When We Do, The Performance Is Itself The Wage.

For, When All Is Said, As My Friend George Rublee Likes To Put It, The Only Success Is To Be A Success As A Person; And It Is Still Not Too Late For That.