Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?

Is that what passes for humor with you?

He luxuriated in the sound of high language well spoken.

For we humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our own lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the…

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.