One Must Never Judge The Writer By

Today's Competitiveness, So Much Imposed From Without, Is Exhausting, Not Exhilarating; Is Unending-a Part Of One's Social Life, One's Solitude, One's Sleep, One's Sleeplessness.

Temperament, Like Liberty, Is Important Despite How Many Crimes Are Committed In Its Name.

In An Automobile Civilization, Which Was One Of Constant Motion And Activity, There Was Almost No Time To Think; In A Television One, There Is Small Desire.

In The History Of Thought And Culture The Dark Nights Have Perhaps In Some Ways Cost Mankind Less Grief Than The False Dawns, The Prison Houses In Which Hope Persists Less Grief Than The Promised Lands Where Hope Expires.

With Intellectuals, Moral Thought Is Often Less A Tonic That Quickens Ethical Action Than A Narcotic That Deadens It.