He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the mighty difficulties of our age, but it is dispersed and unorganized. We need a sort of mental clearing house for the mind: a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified and compared.

In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

The past is but the past of a beginning.