Nothing public can be conversation, and soon everything will be public.
Jul 282021
Jul 272021
You have to spend money to lose money.
Jul 262021
Reading great authors improves your writing by making you desperately unhappy with it.
Jul 232021
A man can bear almost any punishment, provided it’s not for his own good.
Jul 222021
One never sees extremely powerful men decide, in midlife, that they have accumulated enough power, and devote the rest of their years to giving it away.
Jul 212021
The ideal aristocrat resembles the dogs of which he is so fond — steadfast, loyal, wedded to tradition, and just a bit thick.
Jul 202021
Ants can be deterred from crossing a boundary by outlining it with chalk: this is respectable opinion. On ants it works only for a while.
Jul 192021
There exists in all men a thirst for the hunt, for predator stalking prey inexorably until it is caught and torn to shreds, that only reading Jane Austen can slake.
Jul 162021
There ought to be a small but discernible difference between your favorites and what you think best: a large difference is snobbery, and no difference is also snobbery, of an opposite kind.
Jul 152021
One pays moderately for the item and immoderately to keep others from having it.