The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Woman.

Church And State, Soul And Body, God And Man, Are All One At Mont Saint Michel, And The Business Of All Is To Fight, Each In His Own Way, Or To Stand Guard For Each Other.

As A Means Of Variation From A Normal Type, Sickness In Childhood Ought To Have A Certain Value Not To Be Classed Under Any Fitness Or Unfitness Of Natural Selection; And Especially Scarlet Fever Affected Boys Seriously, Both Physically And In Character, Though They Might Through Life Puzzle Themselves To Decide Whether It Had Fitted Or Unfitted Them For Success.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Has Been Always Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Indecent Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards; But Also Because No Mind Is So Well Balanced As To Bear The Strain Of Seizing Unlimited Force Without Habit Or Knowledge Of It; And Finding It Disputed With Him By Hungry Packs Of Wolves And Hounds Whose Lives Depend On Snatching The Carion.

Simplicity Is The Most Deceitful Mistress That Ever Betrayed Man.

Politics, As A Practise, Whatever Its Professions, Has Always Been The Systematic Organization Of Hatreds.