Men rally most readily for what can be immediately done and never undone — a rescue, say, or a lynching.
Oct 022017
Being
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
Sep 262017
To become a god, first stay out of sight.
Sep 222017
It would have occurred to approximately no one in history to ask if what he was doing made him happy.
Sep 042017
One must check the rise to cushion the fall.
Sep 012017
To obliterate an experience, describe it.
Aug 252017
Not much oblige without noblesse.
Aug 242017
Before one wearies of the world one wearies of oneself.
Aug 152017
Great achievements do not excuse private vice, or justify it — they simply overwhelm it.
Aug 102017
To be in love with love is an affliction; yet to hate it is more common, and more serious.
Aug 032017
Almost always it is action that creates conviction; the reverse is so rare that we never fail to mark it.