Funny How People Despise Platitudes, When They

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.

The Great Mistake Of The Reformers Is To Believe That Life Begins And Ends With Health, And That Happiness Begins And Ends With A Full Stomach And The Power To Enjoy Physical Pleasures, Even Of The Finer Kind.

When Did The Word 'temperament' Come Into Fashion With Us? Perhaps It Came In When We Discovered That Artists Were Human Beings.

You Can Be Slum-born And Slum-bred And Still Achieve Something Worth While; But It Is A Stupid Inverted Snobbishness To Be Proud Of It. If One Had A Right To Be Proud Of Anything, It Would Be Of A Continued Decent Tradition Back Of One.

The Real Drawback To The Simple Life Is That It Is Not Simple. If You Are Living It, You Positively Can Do Nothing Else. There Is Not Time.