Life Is Too Short For Reading Inferior

In Europe We Have Cities Wealthier And More Populous Than Yours And We Are Not Happy. You Dream Of Your Posterity; But Your Posterity Will Look Back To Yours As The Golden Age, And Envy Those Who First Burst Into This Silent, Splendid Nature.

Three-fourths Of The Mistakes A Man Makes Are Made Because He Does Not Really Know The Things He Thinks He Knows.

Life Is Too Short For Reading Inferior Books.

To Most People, Nothing Is More Troublesome Than The Effort Of Thinking.

The Ordinary American Voter Does Not Object To Mediocrity. He Likes His Candidate To Be Sensible, Vigorous, And, Above All, What He Calls 'magnetic,' And Does Not Value, Because He Sees No Need For, Originality Or Profundity, A Fine Culture Or A Wide Knowledge.