There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.