History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
Jacques BarzunThe test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
Jacques BarzunWe may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
Jacques BarzunHighly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.
Jacques Barzun