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 082017
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.
Jul 282017
Not every aversion is a fear, and not every fear is a phobia.
Jul 272017
It doesn’t matter what is on television; what matters is that it is on television.
Jul 262017
By the time we are old enough to say what we please we have lost the habit.