Read, Think Well Of Mankind,

The Most Interesting Thing In The World Is Another Human Being Who Wonders, Suffers And Raises The Questions That Have Bothered Him To The Last Day Of His Life, Knowing He Will Never Get The Answers.

And Last Are The Few Whose Delight Is In Meditation And Understanding; Who Yearn Not For Goods, Nor For Victory, But For Knowledge; Who Leave Both Market And Battlefield To Lose Themselves In The Quiet Clarity Of Secluded Thought; Whose Will Is A Light Rather Than A Fire, Whose Haven Is Not Power But Truth: These Are The Men Of Wisdom, Who Stand Aside Unused By The World.

Nothing Is Often A Good Thing To Do And Always A Good Thing To Say.

Which Is Now A More Hopeful Statement Than Swift Intended It To Be.

The Islamic Conquest Of India Is Probably The Bloodiest Story In History. It Is A Discouraging Tale, For Its Evident Moral Is That Civilization Is A Precious Good, Whose Delicate Complex Of Order And Freedom, Culture And Peace, Can At Any Moment Be Overthrown By Barbarians Invading From Without Or Multiplying Within.