Boys Naturally Look On All Force As

In Correct Theology, The Virgin Ought Not To Be Represented In Bed, For She Could Not Suffer Like Ordinary Women, But Her Palace At Chartres Is Not Much Troubled By Theology, And To Her, As Empress-mother, The Pain Of Child-birth Was A Pleasure Which She Wanted Her People To Share.

The Outline Of The City Became Frantic In Its Effort To Explain Something That Defied Meaning. Power Seemed To Have Outgrown Its Servitude And To Have Asserted Its Freedom. The Cylinder Had Exploded, And Thrown Great Masses Of Stone And Steam Against The Sky.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Has Been Always Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Indecent Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards; But Also Because No Mind Is So Well Balanced As To Bear The Strain Of Seizing Unlimited Force Without Habit Or Knowledge Of It; And Finding It Disputed With Him By Hungry Packs Of Wolves And Hounds Whose Lives Depend On Snatching The Carion.

[p]hilosophy . . .consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems.

It Is Always Good Men Who Do The Most Harm In The World.