When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

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If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try.

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Durer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at;

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Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.

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We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

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He's not out seeing a sight but the rock...

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My father used to say superior people never make long visits.

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War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.

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