By Nature, Man Is Lazy, Working Only

All Taxation Is An Evil, But Heavy Taxes, Indiscriminately Levied On Every Everything Are One Of The Greatest Curses That Can Afflict A People

Laplace Would Have Found It Child's-play To Fix A Ratio Of Progression In Mathematical Science Between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton And Himself

As History Stands, It Is A Sort Of Chinese Play, Without End And Without Lesson.

A Friend In Power Is A Friend Lost.

I Am Fairly Tired--bored Beyond Endurance--by The World We Live In, And Its Ideals, And Am Ready To Say So, Not Violently, But Kindly, As One Rubs Salt Into The Back Of A Flogged Sailor As Though One Loved Him.