Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.

Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done.

Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

Which is weird. But not the craziest thing I can think of Rose doing.ʺ I appreciated the support.

I read a lot of 'The Canterbury Tales' on my phone last year, because I was cycling between three different editions, and I needed to have a middle-of-the-night edition for the insomniac reading.