Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.

The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers