Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Literary Men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go read more

Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, read more

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much read more

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)

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.