Longfellow Is To Poetry What The Barrel-organ

People Of Small Calibre Are Always Carping. How Affected So-and-so Is! Don't You Think He Is Silly? He Was Certainly Quite Mistaken About This Or That. They Are Bent On Showing Their Own Superiority, Their Knowledge Or Their Prowess Or Good Breeding.

There Is No Stopping The World's Tendency To Throw Off Imposed Restraints, The Religious Authority That Is Based On The Ignorance Of The Many, The Political Authority That Is Based On The Knowledge Of The Few.

Nothing Is Sadder Than The Consequences Of Having Worldly Standards Without Worldly Means.

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.

Once You Have A Point Of View All History Will Back You Up.