"Freedom! That belabored word! It is a big, empty word, and yet, when some experience reminds us what freedom is, how …"

"“Come on,” I said. “We have to try. The effort is utterly pointless, but inaction seems an even greater agony.”"

"Weigh then your wealth, and judge if it’s more dear To you than life. If not, your course is clear."

"It’s always been an exceedingly curious thing to me, just how incurious most people are about all save their own litt…"

"While it is foolish to deny the dark around us, it is futile to exaggerate it."

"And I make bold to say that I am not the only one of my countrymen who could profit from taking this admonition to he…"

"Is it not unsettling to consider the blind unlikelihoods that shape one’s fate?"

"Those feats of deep cunning and brave flair—we’re all allotted a few of them, and we get no more, no matter what our …"

"By his twentieth year he was a thorough adept in all of what we may term the “carnival arts,” and already a widely tr…"

"Granting that our knowledge be limited, what can it profit us to traffic in lurid fantasies and errant imaginings? Wh…"