Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
Well I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was but I was already playing against older guys.
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.