Only Very Coarse Persons Wanted Wars.

A Knowledge Of History As Detailed As Possible Is Essential If We Are To Comprehend The Present And Be Prepared For The Future. Fate...is Not The Blind Superstition Or Helplessness That Waits Stupidly For What May Happen. Fate Is Unalterable Only In The Sense That Given A Cause, A Certain Result Must Follow, But No Cause Is Inevitable In Itself, And Man Can Shape His World If He Does Not Resign Himself To Ignorance.

No Daughter Is Ever Her Mother's Darling. That Spot Is Always Reserved For The Son.

Somehow I Had Learned From Thoreau, Who Doubtless Learned It From Confucius, That If A Man Comes To Do His Own Good For You, Then Must You Flee That Man And Save Yourself

At Heart A Truly Modest Man, He Had Nevertheless The Modest Man's Pride In His Modesty In The Face Of Achievement.

Purposeless Activity May Be A Phase Of Death.