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

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire.

A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group.