If Men Were Basically Evil,

How Delightful Is The Company Of Generous People, Who Overlook Trifles And Keep Their Minds Instinctively Fixed On Whatever Is Good And Positive In The World Around Them.

Never Forget That It Is We New Yorkers And New Englanders Who Have The Monopoly Of Whatever Oxygen There Is In The American Continent.

Better The Fragrant Herb Of Wit And A Little Cream Of Affability Than All The Pretty Cups In The World.

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

There Is No Stopping The World's Tendency To Throw Off Imposed Restraints, The Religious Authority That Is Based On The Ignorance Of The Many, The Political Authority That Is Based On The Knowledge Of The Few.