The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
— Elizabeth Drew
Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.