I am fond of children--except boys.

I am fond of children--except boys.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises
one, slights the other.

How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the read more

How are thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the
nations!

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that read more

Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so reluctant to change? It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past; its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, read more

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.