Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.
Apr 112023
Apr 102023
You get to know someone, and learn to like him. Then you discover he holds opinions you find noxious, and you say, “I never knew he was like that.” He isn’t. He’s the same man you knew before he had opinions.
Apr 072023
Judicial restraint is legislative license.
Apr 062023
Bad analogies make no end of mischief, none more than mind and body.
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.