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

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

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

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

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

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