The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.