Sublime

Modern people do not understand him because they do not understand the difference between exaggerating a truth and exaggerating a lie. He did exaggerate, but what he knew, not what he did not know.

And these statistics, like nearly all statistics, would be utterly useless and even fundamentally false.

But there are some people, nevertheless—and I am one of them—who think that the most practical and important thing about a man is still his view of the universe.

It had that deeply conservative belief in the most ancient of institutions, the average man, which goes by the name of democracy.

Human things are uncomfortably complex,

Men can always be blind to a thing so long as it is big enough.

That is the mark of the truly great man: that he sees the common man afar off, and worships him.

a thirst for some loyalty that shall unify life,

What on earth is the current morality, except in its literal sense--the morality that is always running away?