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

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it by trying to get it free of charge and free of work.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

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