A Man With Few Friends Is Only

Self-recognition Is Necessary To Know One's Road, But, Knowing The Road, The Price Of The Mistakes And Perils Is Worth Paying. The Following Of That Road Will Be All The Discipline One Needs. Discipline Does Not Mean Being Molded By Outside Forces, But Sticking To One's Road Against The Forces That Would Deflect Or Bury The Soul. People Speak Of Finding One

The Ironic Life Is A Life Keenly Alert, Keenly Sensitive, Reacting Promptly With Feelings Of Liking Or Dislike To Each Bit Of Experience, Letting None Of It Pass Without Interpretation And Assimilation, A Life Full And Satisfying - Indeed A Rival Of The Religious Life.

We Can Easily Become As Much Slaves To Precaution As We Can To Fear. Although We Can Never Rivet Our Fortune So Tight As To Make It Impregnable, We May By Our Excessive Prudence Squeeze Out Of The Life That We Are Guarding So Anxiously All The Adventurous Quality That Makes It Worth Living.

Diplomacy Is A Disguised War, In Which States Seek To Gain By Barter And Intrigue, By The Cleverness Of Arts, The Objectives Which They Would Have To Gain More Clumsily By Means Of War.

All We Can Ever Do In The Way Of Good To People Is To Encourage Them To Do Good To Themselves.