Never Mind Your Happiness; Do Your Duty.

Cultivate Your Garden… Do Not Depend Upon Teachers To Educate You … Follow Your Own Bent, Pursue Your Curiosity Bravely, Express Yourself, Make Your Own Harmony… In The End, Education, Like Happiness, Is Individual, And Must Come To Us From Life And From Ourselves. There Is No Way; Each Pilgrim Must Make His Own Path. "happiness," Said Chamfort, "is Not Easily Won; It Is Hard To Find It In Ourselves, And Impossible To Find It Elsewhere.

All That Is Good In Our History Is Gathered In Libraries. At This Moment, Plato Is Down There At The Library Waiting For Us. So Is Aristotle. Spinoza Is There And So Is Kats. Shelly And Byron Adn Sam Johnson Are There Waiting To Tell Us Their Magnificent Stories. All You Have To Do Is Walk In The Library Door And The Great Company Open Their Arms To You. They Are So Happy To See You That They Come Out With You Into The Street And To Your Home. And They Do What Hardly Any Friend Will-- They Are Silent When You Wish To Think.

Drunkenness Was In Good Repute In England Till "bloody Mary" Frowned Upon It; It Remained Popular In Germany. The French Drank More Stably, Not Being Quite So Cold.

War Is One Of The Constants Of History, And It Has Not Diminished With Civilization Or Democracy.

If Our Economy Of Freedom Fails To Distribute Wealth As Ably As It Has Created It, The Road To Dictatorship Will Be Open To Any Man Who Can Persuasively Promise Security To All.