One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

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

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

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.

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment