Sublime

Far into the unfathomable past of our race we find the assumption that the founding of a family is the personal adventure of a free man.

Those old wild images included a crucial truth. Man is a monster. And he is all the more a monster because one part of him is perfect.

But I don’t see what a man can expect when he fights against arithmetic,

But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

At the beginning of our epoch men talked with equal ease about Reform and Repeal. Now everybody talks about reform; but nobody talks about repeal.

and the government had to resort to the simple expedient of calming the people with promises, and then proceeding to break first the promises and then the people, after the fashion made familiar to us by the modern politicians

The chief English fault, especially in the nineteenth century, has been lack of decision, not only lack of decision in action, but lack of the equally essential decision in thought–which some call dogma.