It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.