Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'