Truth Is So Often Disconcerting.

They Opposed Brute Force To Reason And Philosophy, And Battalions Of Foreign Mercenaries To Ideas. As If Ideas Were To Be Impaled On Bayonets!

A Man Must Sometimes Laugh At Himself Or Go Mad,’ Said He. ‘few Realize It. That Is Why There Are So Many Madmen In The World.

Do You Expect Sincerity In Man When Hypocrisy Is The Very Keynote Of Human Nature? We Are Nurtured On It; We Are Schooled In It, We Live By It; And We Rarely Realize It.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16

Gold Has At All Times Been Considered The Best Of Testimonies Of Good Faith.

...it Is Human Nature, I Suppose, To Be Futile And Ridiculous.