No One Respects A Talent That Is

Nothing Is So Foolish, They Say, As For A Man To Stand For Office And Woo The Crowd To Win Its Vote, Buy Its Support With Presents, Court The Applause Of All Those Fools And Feel Self-satisfied When They Cry Their Approval, And Then In His Hour Of Triumph To Be Carried Round Like An Effigy For The Public To Stare At, And End Up Cast In Bronze To Stand In The Market Place.

The Jewish Usurers Are Fast-rooted Even In The Smallest Villages, And If They Lend Five Gulden They Require A Security Of Six Times As Much. They Charge Interest, Upon Interest, And Upon This Again Interest, So That The Poor Man Loses Everything That He Owns.

By A Carpenter Mankind Was Made, And Only By That Carpenter Can Mankind Be Remade.

They May Attack Me With An Army Of Six Hundred Syllogisms; And If I Do Not Recant, They Will Proclaim Me A Heretic.

A Nail Is Driven Out By Another Nail. Habit Is Overcome By Habit.