Bad analogies make no end of mischief, none more than mind and body.
Apr 062023
Apr 052023
Domestic sentiment is impossible to portray effectively in art, because it is universal, deeply felt, and always the same.
Apr 042023
How little are we ourselves, and how strenuously do we play at it!
Apr 032023
To be great is to be more than the sum of one’s parts; the usual case is to be less.
Mar 312023
Almost everything will seem to work on the right subjects, and almost nothing will on the wrong ones.
Mar 302023
Genuine truth-seekers make unfashionable errors.
Mar 292023
There is no gait that a dog breed does not exemplify. Setters stalk, dachshunds scurry, Labradors amble, German shepherds skulk, terriers march.
Mar 282023
It is as misdirected to love or admire science, in the large, as poetry. One must ask after not poetry but poems, and not science but experiments.
Mar 272023
One way to mark an important event is if the people who constantly opine in public suddenly have nothing to say.
Mar 242023
I’m no misanthrope. Some of my best friends are people.