To Understand Is Not Only To Pardon,

There Are At Least Two Distinct Selves, The Public And Regal Self, The Private And Human.

Modern Men Are Afraid Of The Past. It Is A Record Of Human Achievement, But Its Other Face Is Human Defeat.

Robinson Crusoe, The Self-sufficient Man, Could Not Have Lived In New York City.

At The Core Of Every Moral Code There Is A Picture Of Human Nature, A Map Of The Universe, And A Version Of History. To Human Nature (of The Sort Conceived), In A Universe (of The Kind Imagined), After A History (so Understood), The Rules Of The Code Apply.

It Is At The Cross-roads That Skepticism Is Born, Not In A Hermitage.