I think it is Montaigne who has said, that ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. I am sure it is true as to everything political, and shall endeavor to estrange myself to everything of that character. - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Edmund Randolph, February 3, 1794. ABILITY Man is capable of all things. - Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Bk II.12, 1588. ACHIEVEMENTOur soul cannot from her own seat reach so high; ‘tis necessary she must leave it, raise herself up, and, taking the bridle in her teeth, transport her man so far that...