no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. H. L.

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a lovelier one of their own. H. L.

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. H. L.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. H. L.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. H. L.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. H. L.

Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons. H. L.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. H. L.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L.