A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude. If my soldiers were to begin to think, not one would remain in the ranks. Trifles go to make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment. When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping.
Men invade another country.
It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. Nothing shocks me more in the men of religion and their flocks than their pretensions to be the only religious people. No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions. A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them.