You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.

How true it is that men live for Things and women for People!

We ought to recognise the profound gulf between the work to which we are 'called' and the work we are forced into as a means of livelihood.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.