“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
