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There are no great crimes of which sn intelligent man does not feel capable.

".Wit, however, is a dangerous gift for a preacher, a politician or a professor - he is certain to offend the stupid persons who are always in a majority"

Log cabins were introduced to America by the Swedes and Finns on the Delaware

If men desire a people to degenerate speedily, to corrupt their minds and bodies, & to lure in thieves and spoilers from abroad, let them seek a rich soil that yields much with little labour. But if they desire that piety & godliness should prosper, accompanied by sobriety, justice, & love, let them choose a country such as this, like France or England, which yields sufficiency only through hard labour and industry.

Try as it might, the skyscraper has yet to overcome the spirit of the forest - the immensity, the melancholy.

"The faster the aeroplane flies, the less important are France, Spain, and Italy. They were nations, now they are provinces, and tomorrow they will be the world's villages."

"As I get older, life seems more and more beautiful, but living is more and more difficult"

Be always prepared for disappointments

"May men of great understanding are too wise, and of too great spirits to labour after wealth; or if they do, their designs are unsuccessful"

But as for men, they are ignorant of future things. No man knows so much as who shall be his heir, or enjoy the estate which he has laboured for.

"We live by faith in our vocations, in that faith, in serving God, serves men, and in serving men, serves God"

All the men in the world are divided into two ranks, Godly or Ungodly, Righteous or Wicked; of wicked men two sorts, some are notoriously wicked, others are Hipocrites: Of Hypocrites two sorts some are washed Swines, others are Goats.

All men must live among men, and as men, whether their souls are filled with the Holy Ghost or not, they must suffer the diseases and decays to which men are subject.

## **Selective Liberty**

The Puritans loudly defended freedom and liberty for all men—until slavery entered the room. John Wise, a Puritan minister, writes: *“Man must be conceived to be perfectly in his own power… and every man acknowledged equal to every man.”* Fine words, selectively applied. Hypocrisy, plain and unvarnished.

Insight is really more important than exact scientific knowledge.

Morality found the upper class cynical and sophisticated, the lower classes brutalised and debauched, but from the middle classes they received a ready response.

... faith might be a delusion but was still a valuable instrument of social control, and anything that kept the masses quiet was too useful to be discarded.

Science gives us rules, but understanding them only from a distance and in rough outline is not easy, and if one has understood them, then the difficult part begins, which is how they apply to local conditions.

... extreme rationalism leads to complete skepticism.

science, so rich in understanding, is less so practical outcomes

In peace, most people destroy themselves through slothfulness and a sense of security. In war, they would be destroyed by others, were it not for the wisdom and courage of the valiant.