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.

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice let it fly

The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.