Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so the rest lies with god.

When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you'll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?

Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.