The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.

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

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.