Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
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.