This makes me forever ineligible for public office. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
The morality of those who are having a better time. The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste. The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.