The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

Life is given us as a passion.

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

We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.