Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.

So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you.

To be able to forget means sanity.

Where others have hearts, he carries a tumor of rotten principles.

Life creeps slowly upward.... When some forgotten inventor of the older world smote his rival or enemy with a branch of wood and found that it was good and thereafter made a practice of smiting rivals and enemies with branches of wood, then, and on that day, artificiality may be said to have begun. Then, and on that day, was begun a revolution destined to change the history of life. Then, and on that day, was laid the cornerstone of that most tremendous of artifices, CIVILIZATION!

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Strength is an empty shell.