To hit someone means to adopt his point of view.

Man cannot bear his own portrait. The image of his limits and his own determinacy exasperates him, drives him mad.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

A limited vocabulary, but one with which you can make numerous combinations, is better than thirty thousand words that only hamper the action of the mind.

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.