Mason Cooley Quotes
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
Cooley, Mason. City Aphorisms, Second Selection. Pascal Press, 1987.
Compare Mark 3:25, above, and Abraham Lincoln's use of the phrase in one of his most famous speeches.
At the time, there was great debate about Christian theology and most of it was about esoteric and in the Emperor’s view not very important matters. Over a millennium before the Protestant Reformation, there were huge sectarian religious dissents among the Christians. One was on exactly how Easter was to be celebrated, for example.
This is a variant of the famous Lincoln quotation, {619494}. Houston did not use the word “house” as had Lincoln but surely, as did Lincoln, was familiar with The Book of Mathew {606727}. Houston however gave his speech BEFORE Lincoln.
See also Matthew 12:25. Quoted by Abraham Lincoln in his speech to the Republican State Convention, Springfield, IL, June 16, 1858
He was referring to the Volunteers of Ireland who had politically organized.
The debate had come to an impasse over the issue of voting and taxation by state equally or proportional to the population. Witherspoon warned of the consequence of there being no agreement on some form of unity.
Mason Cooley was an American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms. One of these such aphorisms Cooley developed was "The time I kill is killing me." He was professor emeritus of French, speech and world literature at the College of Staten Island. He was also an assistant professor of English at Columbia University from 1959 to 1967 and an adjunct professor from 1980 to 1988. He received his B.A. from San Diego State University and his Ph.D. from Oxford.
