Young Men Have A Passion

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.

In Correct Theology, The Virgin Ought Not To Be Represented In Bed, For She Could Not Suffer Like Ordinary Women, But Her Palace At Chartres Is Not Much Troubled By Theology, And To Her, As Empress-mother, The Pain Of Child-birth Was A Pleasure Which She Wanted Her People To Share.

Society Is Immoral And Immortal; It Can Afford To Commit Any Kind Of Folly, And Indulge In Any Sort Of Vice; It Cannot Be Killed, And The Fragments That Survive Can Always Laugh At The Dead.

The Indian Summer Of Life Should Be A Little Sunny And A Little Sad, Like The Season, And Infinite In Wealth And Depth Of Tone, But Never Hustled.

[p]olitical And Social And Scientific Values ... Should Be Correlated In Some Relation Of Movement That Could Be Expressed In Mathematics, Nor Did One Care In The Least That All The World Said It Could Not Be Done, Or That One Knew Not Enough Mathematics Even To Figure A Formula Beyond The Schoolboy S=(1/2)gt2. If Kepler And Newton Could Take Liberties With The Sun And Moon, An Obscure Person ... Could Take Liberties With Congress, And Venture To Multiply Its Attraction Into The Square Of Its Time. He Had Only To Find A Value, Even Infinitesimal, For Its Attraction.