The facts I remember are too good to check.
Sep 302022
Remembering
The obscurest epoch is today.
—Stevenson
Sep 122022
As you grow old, you forget, and as you forget, you have to stop lying, or at least cut way down.
Sep 092022
Rogues, dunces, and newspapermen have long been with us, but the rogues are no longer charming, the dunces no longer amiable, and the newspapermen no longer raffish.
Aug 262022
We so often demand that the dead meet the standards of the living, and so rarely that the living meet the standards of the dead.
Aug 082022
Why speak ill of the dead? It’s the living who cause all the trouble.
Aug 032022
Among the cataloguers of influence the influence of Rousseau is unsurpassed.
Jul 272022
Western man worships bluesmen the same way the ancient Egyptians worshipped cats.
Jul 262022
The late 19th century was nearer in thought to the Romans than to us.
Jun 292022
Nearly every new law is bad, and nearly every old custom is good.
Jun 152022
The psychologists tell us that what we possess we hold too dear — except our inherited civilization, which we are ever eager to part with on the cheap.