The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

"History is the echo of voices we can no longer hear."

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

"Writing is a way of making sense of the world, even when it doesn't make sense."

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.