The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.