Life writes the history upon the face, so that all those who have had a like experience read and understand. In most religions there is a strain of ethics, but if religion becomes intense it leaves ethics out of the equation, and than you get a selfishness, a coldness and a cruelty beyond compare. Hypocrisy is conscious and willful dishonesty. Intellectually and morally the fittest have never survived - hence a an intellectual race of scrubs. To have a full stomach and a fixed income are no small things.
Genius consists in snatching success from the jaws of defeat.
Humanity is changed as you change environment. There is a whole round of maladies that can be cured by a new thought, a new sensation, new surroundings. Good Philistines make a success of everything they attempt - it is the mental attitude that does it. There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought. It is far safer to trust a normal human heart than a critical, legal mind.