You Can Bear Anything If It Is

Successful Socialism Depends On The Perfectibility Of Man. Unless All, Or Nearly All, Men Are High-minded And Clear-sighted, It Isbound To Be A Rotten Failure In Any But A Physical Sense. Even Through It Is Altruism, Socialism Means Materialism. You Can Guarantee The Things Of The Body To Every One, But You Cannot Guarantee The Things Of The Spirit To Every One; You Can Guarantee Only That The Opportunity To Seek Them Shall Not Be Denied To Any One Who Chooses To Seek Them.

Democracy Always Makes For Materialism, Because The Only Kind Of Equality That You Can Guarantee To A Whole People Is, Broadly Speaking, Physical.

It Is Not Permissible To Lie Merely To Save One's Face. But It Is Sometimes Permissible To Lie To Save Another Person's Face.

Every One Knows About The Young Man Who Falls In Love With The Chorus-girl Because She Can Kick His Hat Off, And His Sister's Friends Can't Or Won't. But The Youth Who Marries Her, Expecting That All Her Departures From Convention Will Be As Agile Or As Delightful To Him As That, Is Still The Classic Example Of Folly.

Simplicity Is An Acquired Taste. Mankind, Left Free, Instinctively Complicates Life.