Civilization can never be other than a brief local interlude; it creates the conditions for its own destruction.
Feb 112022
Feb 102022
Improvement rarely begins in reflection on how wonderful you already are.
Feb 092022
If a discipline purports to be a science, yet has not produced a universal law to which all of its practitioners agree, it is just giving itself airs.
Feb 082022
The apotheosis of the artist comes when he arrogates to himself the right to bore you.
Feb 072022
A few books, like Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson and certain novels by Wodehouse, are unglossable, complete and perfect in themselves. They may succeed with the public but never with the critics, who before them feel their own irrelevance too acutely.
Feb 042022
As the Western rose and fell, so too America.
Feb 032022
If you want to do good, make money.
Feb 022022
Sane people throw themselves into politics only when the state has made normal life impossible, and by then it is too late.
Feb 012022
Any man who was not a Whig a hundred fifty years ago had no heart, and any man who is one today has no brains.
Jan 312022
Anything announced as voluntary is mandatory.