Ages When Custom Is Unsettled

The People Who Really Matter In Social Affairs Are Neither Those Who Wish To Stop Short Like A Mule, Or Leap From Crag To Crag Like A Mountain Goat.

There Is Nothing So Good For The Human Soul As The Discovery That There Are Ancient And Flourishing Civilized Societies Which Have Somehow Managed To Exist For Many Centuries And Are Still In Being Though They Have Had No Help From The Traveler In Solving Their Problems.

Ignore What A Man Desires And You Ignore The Very Source Of His Power.

Life Is An Irreversible Process And For That Reason Its Future Can Never Be A Repetition Of The Past.

It Is Easier To Develop Great Power Than It Is To Know How To Use It Wisely.