In The One Branch He Most Needed

American Politics Is A Struggle, Not Of Men But Of Forces. The Men Become Every Year More And More Creatures Of Force, Massed About Central Power Houses.

Just As The French Of The Nineteenth Century Invested Their Surplus Capital In A Railway-system In The Belief That They Would Makemoney By It In This Life, In The Thirteenth They Trusted Their Money To The Queen Of Heaven Because Of Their Belief In Her Power To Repay It With Interest In The Life To Come.

No Man Likes To Have His Intelligence Or Good Faith Questioned, Especially If He Has Doubts About It Himself.

After Gibbs, One The Most Distinguished [american Scientists] Was Langley, Of The Smithsonian. ... He Had The Physicist's Heinous Fault Of Professing To Know Nothing Between Flashes Of Intense Perception. ... Rigidly Denying Himself The Amusement Of Philosophy, Which Consists Chiefly In Suggesting Unintelligible Answers To Insoluble Problems, And Liked To Wander Past Them In A Courteous Temper, Even Bowing To Them Distantly As Though Recognizing Their Existence, While Doubting Their Respectibility.

All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy Taxes, Indiscriminately Levied On Every Everything Are One Of The Greatest Curses That Can Afflict A People