"We are called upon not to be successful, but to be faithful."

"But then a daring evasion by a leading conveyancer, known as the Lease and Release, received judicial sanction; and commenced a successful career of more than 200 years. The Lease and Release, attribu…"

"We understand instinctively that being a prodigy wasn’t platform for a lifetime’s achievement; it marked the possibility of a highly specific, highly term-limited kind of performance."

"There are times when the assertion of great principles is the best service a man can render society. The present is a moment of bewildering excitement, when men's minds are stormed and darkened by str…"

"In return for the costliness and inconvenience, the squalor and discomfort of our lives, we get to participate in whatever is the latest. We are never left out of anything: we know what's happening, e…"