It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.
This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.
Experience cannot possibly have decided between two courses, so long as there has only been experience of one.
Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
There were so many levels to the unknown, from safe to dangerous to outright nebulous, scariest of all.
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!
If something is going to be better, it is new, and if it's new you are confronting problems and challenges you don't have references for.
Change means the unknown.
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
