Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

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.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.