The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
From Samuel Butler
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor.
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out.
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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