Our Political Experiment Of Democracy, The Last

The Only Way In Which A Nation Can Make Itself Wealthy And Prosperous Is By Good Housekeeping: That Is, By Providing For Its Wants In The Order Of Their Importance, And Allowing No Money To Be Wasted On Whims And Luxuries Until Necessities Have Been Thoroughly Served.

Those Who Understand Evil Pardon It.

I Don't Know What To Say About This Book. The Experience On Which It Is Founded Is So Extraordinary, That An Honest Record Of It Should Be Preserved . . . But It Would Have Driven Me Mad; And I Am Not Sure That The Author Came Out Of It Without A Slight Derangement.

Now Of All The Idealist Abominations That Make Society Pestiferous I Doubt If There Be Any So Mean As That Of Forcing Self-sacrifice On A Woman Under The Pretense That She Likes It.

My Opportunities Were Still There, Nay, They Multiplied Tenfold; But The Strength And Youth To Cope With Them Began To Fail, And To Need Eking Out With The Shifty Cunning Of Experience.