"Strong freedom ensures that some actions are represented as directed to ends which are not merely mine, but which are…"

"The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is …"

"The maxim of relation, where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion."

"The maxim of manner, when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where o…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"

"The twentieth century had conclusively settled the question of how a society should be organised: liberal democracy, …"

"For James, there was no sense that expanding Tesco’s sales onto the web was what the human race urgently needed. It d…"