In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work read more

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, read more

Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. - Aeneid, The.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, read more

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn read more

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.