Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

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

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

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