It is possible to win an argument, if you’re willing to forgo the awards ceremony.
Aug 112017
Aug 102017
To be in love with love is an affliction; yet to hate it is more common, and more serious.
Aug 092017
To take a bribe and deliver nothing in return makes one no less corrupt, only less reliable.
Aug 082017
We speak with awe of ruling the world, as the supreme attainment; but the world has had many rulers, on the whole a sorry lot.
Aug 072017
Humans have improved modestly in acquiring knowledge but vastly in transmitting it.
Aug 042017
We perpetuate ourselves with art and offspring; but art has less alloy and may last longer.
Aug 032017
Almost always it is action that creates conviction; the reverse is so rare that we never fail to mark it.
Aug 022017
Whatever I’ve believed with passionate intensity has been wrong.
Aug 012017
The distinctive modern contribution to language has been the acronym.
Jul 312017
The full-grown model pupil speaks of “problems” to be “solved”, as if the world were a textbook and these the exercises.