Nothing so distresses the disciple as the master changing his mind.
May 032013
May 022013
Spouses never quite forgive each other their existence before they met.
May 012013
Many privileges are granted on the implied condition that they will not be exercised.
Apr 302013
The stupid delude themselves that anything is possible; the clever, that whatever they cannot do cannot be done.
Apr 292013
The author who displays his library is like the suspect who leads police to the scene of the crime.
Apr 262013
Computers more readily imitate our intelligence than our stupidity.
Apr 252013
Into every 1789 a little 1793 must fall.
Apr 242013
Personality varies like men’s fashion — a quarter-inch of width in the tie or length in the cuff.
Apr 232013
The strange grows familiar, and its former strangeness becomes impossible to recover or even to fathom.
Apr 222013
Surfeit: A group of poets.