Poetry And Preaching Do Not Go Well

When The Mind Withdraws Into Itself And Dispenses With Facts It Makes Only Chaos.

When Faith Is Supported By Facts Or By Logic It Ceases To Be Faith.

In Every Civilization, Life Grows Easier. Men Grow Lazier In Consequence. We Have A Picture Of What Happened To The Individual Greek. (i Cannot Look At History, Or At Any Human Action, Except As I Look At The Individual.) The Greeks Had Good Food, Good Witty Talk, Pleasant Dinner Parties; And They Were Content. When The Individual Man Had Reached That Condition In Athens, When The Thought Not Of Giving To The State But Of What The State Could Give To Him, Athens' Freedom Was Doomed.

Moderately Wise Each One Should Be, Not Overwise, For A Wise Man's Heart Is Seldom Glad (norse Wisdom)

... Clear Thinking Is Not The Characteristic Which Distinguishes Our Literature Today. We Are More And More Caught Up By The Unintelligible. People Like It. This Argues An Inability To Think, Or, Almost As Bad, A Disinclination To Think.