The Virtue and unpretentiousness of the wise man, which I am talking about, goes unnoticed because of its transparent ordinariness.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I wish knowing what you SHOULD do was as easy to figure out as what you SHOULDN’T do!.... jh

Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

Alex understood such discipline. He knew the rarity of it, and the cost. And on the rare occasions when he happened to touch her, he did wonder what else she might have been, if she had not been so determined to be typical.