A String Of Excited, Fugitive, Miscellaneous Pleasures

To Be An American Is Of Itself Almost A Moral Condition, An Education, And A Career.

The More Rational An Institution Is The Less It Suffers By Making Concessions To Others.

It Would Be Hard To Conceive A System Of Instincts More Nicely Adjusted, Where The Constituents Should Represent Or Support One Another Better. The Husband Has An Interest In Protecting The Wife, She In Serving The Husband. The Weaker Gains In Authority And Safety, The Wilder And More Unconcerned Finds A Help-mate At Home To Take Thought Of His Daily Necessities. Parents Lend Children Their Experience And A Vicarious Memory; Children Endow Their Parents With A Vicarious Immortality.

To Be Boosted By An Illusion Is Not To Live Better Than To Live In Harmony With The Truth ... These Refusals To Part With A Decayed Illusion Are Really An Infection To The Mind.

Religion Is The Love Of Life In The Consciousness Of Impotence.