To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

A simple life is its own reward.

Those who cannot remember the pastare condemned to repeat it. or: Those who have never heard of good system development practice are condemned to reinvent it.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

For Shakespeare, in the matter of religion, the choice lay between Christianity and nothing. He chose nothing.