People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.
If I could put it into a very few words, dear sir, I should say that our prevalent belief is in moderation. We inculcate the virtue of avoiding excesses of all kinds—even including, if you will pardon the paradox, excess of virtue itself.
Then the whole range, much nearer now, paled into fresh splendor; a full moon rose, touching each peak in succession like some celestial lamplighter, until the long horizon glittered against a blue-black sky.
As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.
It’s a very remarkable story.””Remarkable’s a well-chosen word. It doesn’t give you away.
I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I’ve mentioned, and though I don’t talk much about it, the chief thing I’ve asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.
It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.
We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.
The right mixture of caring and not caring – I suppose that’s what love is.
If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.