If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.

I love reading another reader’s list of favorites. Even when I find I do not share their tastes or predilections, I am provoked to compare, contrast, and contradict. It is a most healthy exercise, and one altogether fruitful.

From a purely external point of view there is no will; and to find will in any phenomenon requires a certain empathy; we observe aman's actions and place ourselves partly but not wholly in his position; or we act, and place ourselves partly in the position of an outsider.

A thousand policemen directing traffic cannot tell you why you come or where you go.

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

Home is where one starts from.