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

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.