Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is not an apology, but a life.