Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Either move or be moved.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.