'If the early Chinese people had any chivalry, it was manifested not toward women and children, but toward old people. That feeling of chivalry found clear expression in Mencius in some such saying as, 'The people with gray hair should not be seen carrying burdens on the street,' which was expressed as the final goal of good government.' (p. 193)

'A man who has to be punctually at a certain place at five o'clock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.' (p. 163)

'...by association with natures enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also. There is a way of looking upon a landscape as a moving picture and being sat…

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I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhamm…

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.