We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone …

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

You enquire where I now stand. That is a disputed point. I think I am a whig; but others say there are no whigs, and that I am an abolitionist. When I was at W…

What he feared most was the blind spot between us and the future, the space between identities where we could get lost forever.

It is brave to be involved To be not fearful to be unresolved.

As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're getting close to one, because the imaginative l…