Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education. Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together.
Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that are forever blowing through one's mind.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes.