The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
