Adventure Is The Life Of Commerce, But

Nothing Is More Unpleasant Than A Virtuous Person With A Mean Mind.

The Real Essence Of Work Is Concentrated Energy - People Who Really Have That In A Superior Degree By Nature Are Independent Of The Forms And Habits And Artifices By Which Less Able And Less Active People Are Kept Up To Their Labors.

A Highly Developed Moral Nature Joined To An Undeveloped Intellectual Nature, An Undeveloped Artistic Nature, And A Very Limited Religious Nature, Is Of Necessity Repulsive. It Represents A Bit Of Human Nature A Good Bit, Of Course, But A Bit Only In Disproportionate, Unnatural And Revolting Prominence.

You May Talk Of The Tyranny Of Nero And Tiberius; But The Real Tyranny Is The Tyranny Of Your Next-door Neighbor.

History Is Strewn With The Wrecks Of Nations Which Have Gained A Little Progressiveness At The Cost Of A Great Deal Of Hard Manliness, And Have Thus Prepared Themselves For Destruction As Soon As The Movements Of The World Have A Chance For It.