In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.