All Experience Is An Arch, To Build

The Spring Is Here, Young And Beautiful As Ever, And Absolutely Shocking In Its Display Of Reckless Maternity; But The Judas Treewill Bloom For You On The Bosphorus If You Get There In Time. No One Ever Loved The Dog-wood And Judas Tree As I Have Done, And It Is My One Crown Of Life To Be Sure That I Am Going To Take Them With Me To Heaven To Enjoy Real Happiness With The Virgin And Them.

Whenever A Man Reaches The Top Of The Political Ladder, His Enemies Unite To Pull Him Down. His Friends Become Critical And Exacting.

The Great Word Evolution Had Not Yet, In 1860, Made A New Religion Of History, But The Old Religion Had Preached The Same Doctrinefor A Thousand Years Without Finding In The Entire History Of Rome Anything But Flat Contradiction.

Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.

Simplicity Is The Most Deceitful Mistress That Ever Betrayed Man.