The Truly Ambitious Are Always As Busy

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

Along With Being Forever On The Move, One Is Forever In A Hurry, Leaving Things Inadvertently Behind-friend Or Fishing Tackle, Old Raincoat Or Old Allegiance.

Nominally A Great Age Of Scientific Inquiry, Ours Has Become An Age Of Superstition About The Infallibility Of Science; Of Almost Mystical Faith In Its Non-mystical Methods; Above All-which Perhaps Most Explains The Expert's Sovereignty-of External Verities; Of Traffic-cop Morality And Rabbit-test Truth.

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

The Technique Of Winning Is So Shoddy, The Terms Of Winning Are So Ignoble, The Tenure Of Winning Is So Brief; And The Specter Of The Has-been-a Shameful Rather Than A Pitiable Sight Today-brings A Sudden Chill Even To Our Sunlit Moments.