No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
Ideally, government is the means by which all the individual wills are assured complete freedom of moral choice and at the same time prevented from ever clashing.
All that we are not stares back at what we are.
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.