We have too many

“No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.”      Henry Brooks Adams

“The sum is, that the worship of God must be spiritual, in order that it may correspond with His nature. For although Moses only speaks of idolatry, yet there is no doubt but that by synecdoche, as in all the rest of the law, he condemns all fictitious services which men in their ingenuity have invented.”     John Calvi

“Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.”     Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord’s Prayer comprises but 67.”     Norman R. Augustine

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”     Aristotle