In every discipline the foundations come last; in most of them we still don’t know what they are.
Feb 212014
Feb 202014
To wield power wisely it is necessary to obtain it.
Feb 192014
Never look for a synonym.
Feb 182014
Misspellers learn from speech, mispronouncers from books.
Feb 172014
Only the literary cannot profit from literature.
Feb 142014
Of all the lies taught in school, the most vicious is that one ought to perform boring tasks diligently.
Feb 132014
Good work does not make its own way in the world.
Feb 122014
From mass literacy the last couple of centuries follow more or less ineluctably.
Feb 112014
By infecting others the writer cures himself.
Feb 102014
People who do not say what they mean usually do not know what they mean.