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Language is legislation,...

Language is legislation,...

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

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Cynicism is intellectual...

Cynicism is intellectual...

Cynicism is intellectual treason.

Source: Human Options, Norton 81
-- Norman...

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The capacity for...

The capacity for...

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and...

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The world has...

The world has...

The world has lost its quintessential romantic icon.

Source: On death of Cary...

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One learns little...

One learns little...

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary...

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Every abridgement of...

Every abridgement of...

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Source: Essays, bk. 3, ch. 8,...

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Happiness is too...

Happiness is too...

Happiness is too many things these days for anyone lo wish il on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a...

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A dog teaches...

A dog teaches...

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying...

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The best part...

The best part...

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely...

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We are fickle...

We are fickle...

We are fickle and we are insatiable in our appetite for new news, new biases, new cliches.... It's not just... that...

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Everybody's for democracy...

Everybody's for democracy...

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff...

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Ours is the...

Ours is the...

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Source: Of...

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The ability to...

The ability to...

The ability to make love frivolously is the thing that distinguishes human beings from...

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It is by...

It is by...

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the...

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The art of...

The art of...

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to...

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All men are...

All men are...

All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one...

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Our expression and...

Our expression and...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

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If you have...

If you have...

If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.

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All. . ....

All. . ....

All. . . forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually...

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