A generation which travels sixty miles an hour must be five times
as civilised as one which only travels twelve.
It is not certain that there has been much change in our
intellectual and moral adornments since pithecanthropus dropped the
first half of his name.
I cannot help hoping that the human race, having taken in
succession every path except the right one, may pay more attention
to the narrow way that leadeth unto life.
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of
vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
After the second century, the apologists for the priesthood are in
smooth waters.
Not everyone can warm both hands before the fire of life without
scorching himself in the process.
It is quite as easy to hypnotise oneself into imbecility by
repeating in solemn tones, "Progress, Democracy, Corporate Unity,"
as by the blessed word Mesopotamia, or, like the Indians, by
repeating the mystic word "Om" five hundred times in succession.
I have lived long enough to hear the _Zeitgeist_ invoked to bless
very different theories.
. . . as if it were a kind of impiety not to float with the stream, a
feat which any dead dog can accomplish. . . .
An appendix is as superfluous at the end of the human caecum as at
the end of a volume of light literature.
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