Adventure Is The Life Of Commerce, But

An Inability To Stay Quiet Is One Of The Conspicuous Failings Of Mankind.

I'm Not The Kind Of Writer Who's Able To Block Out The World Around Me. I'm Mindful Of Our Own Haves And Have-nots, How Our Culture Often Blames And Punishes The Have-nots. I Worry About Our Precarious Economic And Political Climate.

A Man's Mother Is His Misfortune, But His Wife Is His Fault.

Money Is Economic Power.

War Both Needs And Generates Certain Virtues; Not The Highest, But What May Be Called The Preliminary Virtues, As Valor, Veracity, The Spirit Of Obedience, The Habit Of Discipline. Any Of These, And Of Others Like Them, When Possessed By A Nation, And No Matter How Generated, Will Give Them A Military Advantage, And Make Them More Likely To Stay In The Race Of Nations.