When I Was A Boy I Was

Some False Representations Contravene The Law; Some Do Not. ... The Sensibilities Of No Two Men Are The Same. Some Would Refuse To Sell Property Without Carefully Explaining All About Its Merits And Defects, And Putting Themselves In The Purchasers' Place And Inquiring If He Himself Would Buy Under The Circumstances. But Such Men Never Would Be Prosperous Merchants.

All Men Have An Emotion To Kill; When They Strongly Dislike Someone They Involuntarily Wish He Was Dead. I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices With Great Satisfaction.

An Idea Is A Greater Monument Than A Cathedral.

Every Instinct That Is Found In Any Man Is In All Men. The Strength Of The Emotion May Not Be So Overpowering, The Barriers Against Possession Not So Insurmountable, The Urge To Accomplish The Desire Less Keen. With Some, Inhibitions And Urges May Be Neutralized By Other Tendencies. But With Every Being The Primal Emotions Are There. All Men Have An Emotion To Kill; When They Strongly Dislike Some One They Involuntarily Wish He Was Dead. I Have Never Killed Any One, But I Have Read Some Obituary Notices With Great Satisfaction.

I Feel As I Always Have, That The Earth Is The Home And The Only Home Of Man, And I Am Convinced That Whatever He Is To Get Out Of His Existence He Must Get While He Is Here.