Friendship Takes Time.

Economics And Ethics Have Little In Common.

Anyone, However, Who Has Had Dealings With Dates Knows That They Are Worse Than Elusive, They Are Perverse. Events Do Not Happen At The Right Time, Nor In Their Proper Sequence. That Sense Of Harmony With Place And Season Which Is So Strong In The Historian--if He Be A Readable Historian--is Lamentably Lacking In History, Which Takes No Pains To Verify His Most Convincing Statements.

Now The Pessimist Proper Is The Most Modest Of Men. ... Under No Circumstances Does He Presume To Imagine That He, A Mere Unit Of Pain, Can In Any Degree Change Or Soften The Remorseless Words Of Fate.

Science May Carry Us To Mars, But It Will Leave The Earth Peopled As Ever By The Inept.

It Is Not Easy To Find Happiness In Ourselves, And It Is Not Possible To Find It Elsewhere.