Few men are great, but all great men are men, and when I read of one I want to be told how he was great, not how he was a man.
Jan 012024
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Dec 072023
A calculating, self-seeking morality will never animate the mass of men: prudence makes no martyrs.
Nov 202023
Everything speaks louder than words, though not at such length.
Oct 262023
No man is himself in a crisis; some rise above themselves, others fall below, and none knows which he will be until it is upon him.
Oct 242023
A mob can be right but never just.
Oct 062023
First we pretend, then we demand that others pretend, and finally we punish them for not pretending.
Sep 292023
There is news today, and still you are the same.
Sep 142023
Prophets of disaster always materialize, in the manner of ghoulish onlookers, seemingly from nowhere, at a grisly accident.
Sep 112023
Wounded honor provoked duels; wounded feelings provoke lawsuits.
Sep 082023
Everyone can be replaced, and will be.