A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

It would now be technically possible to unify the world, abolish war and poverty altogether, if men desired their own happiness more than the misery of their enemies.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.

The Mormons had a divine revelation in favour of polygamy, but under pressure from the United States Government they discovered that the revelation was not binding.