Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy, but it can easily cause confusion and obscurity and must be used with skill.

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.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.