To Think Great Thoughts You Must Be

On The Whole, I Am On The Side Of The Unregenerate Who Affirms The Worth Of Life As An End In Itself, As Against The Saints Who Deny It.

I Think It Not Improbable That Man, Like The Grub That Prepares A Chamber For The Winged Thing It Never Has Seen But Is To Be - That Man May Have Cosmic Destinies That He Does Not Understand.

There Is In All Men A Demand For The Superlative, So Much So That The Poor Devil That Has No Other Way Of Reaching It Attains It By Getting Drunk.

It Is Better For All The World, If Instead Of Waiting To Execute Degenerate Offspring For Crime Or To Let Them Starve For Their Imbecility, Society Can Prevent Those Who Are Manifestly Unfit From Continuing Their Kind. The Principle That Sustains Compulsory Vaccination Is Broad Enough To Cover Cutting The Fallopian Tubes. Three Generations Of Imbeciles Are Enough.

Liberty Is Often A Heavy Burden On A Man. It Involves The Necessity For Perpetual Choice Which Is The Kind Of Labor Men Have Always Dreaded.