All Progress Is Experimental.

The Fact That A Man Is To Vote Forces Him To Think. You May Preach To A Congregation By The Year And Not Affect Its Thought Because It Is Not Called Upon For Definite Action. But Throw Your Subject Into A Campaign And It Becomes A Challenge.

Our Goodness Comes Solely From Thinking On Goodness; Our Wickedness From Thinking On Wickedness. We Too Are The Victims Of Our Own Contemplation.

Every Generation Is A Secret Society And Has Incommunicable Enthusiasms, Tastes, And Interests Which Are A Mystery Both To Its Predecessors And To Posterity.

One Of The Deepest Impulses In Man Is The Impulse To Record, - To Scratch A Drawing On A Tusk Or Keep A Diary, To Collect Sagas And Heap Cairns. This Instinct As To The Enduring Value Of The Past Is, One Might Say, The Very Basis Of Civilization.

The World Of Politics Is Always Twenty Years Behind The World Of Thought.