When I Am Dead, I Hope It

In The Same Way The Eminence Attaching To The Mere Possession Of Great Wealth Disappoints Us Nine Times Out Of Ten, Especially If The Wealth Has Been Accumulated Rapidly. For Great Wealth Is Accumulated Rapidly By Cunning Or Chance, Or A Mixture Of The Two. Cunning Has Nothing To Do With High Qualities; It Is Rather A Presumption Against Them; While Chance Has Nothing To Do With Them Either. Therefore It Is That Men Are Always Complaining After Meeting So-and-so, That He Seemed To Be Astonishingly Stupid, Though He Made A Million In Ten Years And Started As A Pauper.

The Machine Does Not Control The Mind Of Man, Though It Affects The Mind Of Man; It Is The Mind Of Man That Can And Should Control The Machine.

Time After Time Mankind Is Driven Against The Rocks Of The Horrid Reality Of A Fallen Creation. And Time After Time Mankind Must Learn The Hard Lessons Of History-the Lessons That For Some Dangerous And Awful Reason We Can't Seem To Keep In Our Collective Memory.

It Has Long Been Recognized By Public Men Of All Kinds. . . That Statistics Come Under The Head Of Lying, And That No Lie Is So False Or Inconclusive As That Which Is Based On Statistics.

For One Thing, I Was No Longer Alone; A Man Is Never Alone With The Wind-and The Boat Made Three.