Most of the great art ever produced has been destroyed, forgotten, or unrecognized.
Sep 192014
Sep 182014
To read well you have to live a little.
Sep 172014
You can’t be a polymath without the math.
Sep 162014
Man oscillates continuously between wishing to remain exactly as he is and wishing to become something, anything else.
Sep 152014
Sanity is correspondence at the expense of coherence. Madness is coherence at the expense of correspondence.
Sep 122014
Attention begets all virtue, distraction all vice.
Sep 112014
Two hundred years ago to call a man a poet implied that he was a god; today it implies that he is a fool.
Sep 102014
Carelessness is a mild form of malice.
Sep 092014
Some subjects are to be studied for their own sake, others for the immunity conferred against their adepts. The vaccination principle applies to education as well as to medicine.
Sep 082014
You attenuate your strengths by too assiduously correcting your defects.