Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

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 denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

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

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.