Language is memory and metaphor.

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

To reject censorship after studying the risks involved is very well. To reject it ex cathedra, in the tones of Calvin pronouncing a dogma, eyes and mind closed to the possible consequences, the even marginally possible, is to make things too comfortable for oneself.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.