We Shall Some Day Catch An Abstract

A Friend In Power Is A Friend Lost.

One Friend In A Lifetime Is Much; Two Are Many; Three Are Hardly Possible.

If It Were Worth While To Argue A Paradox, One Might Maintain That Nature Regards The Female As The Essential, The Male As The Superfluity Of Her World. Perhaps The Best Starting-point For Study Of The Virgin Would Be A Practical Acquaintance With Bees, And Especially With Queen Bees.

From Earliest Childhood The Boy Was Accustomed To Feel That, For Him, Life Was Double. Winter And Summer, Town And Country, Law And Liberty, Were Hostile, And The Man Who Pretended They Were Not, Was In His Eyes A Schoolmaster -- That Is, A Man Employed To Tell Lies To Little Boys.

Power Is Poison. Its Effect On Presidents Has Been Always Tragic, Chiefly As An Almost Indecent Excitement At First, And A Worse Reaction Afterwards; But Also Because No Mind Is So Well Balanced As To Bear The Strain Of Seizing Unlimited Force Without Habit Or Knowledge Of It; And Finding It Disputed With Him By Hungry Packs Of Wolves And Hounds Whose Lives Depend On Snatching The Carion.