That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.
“Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”
“What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.”