Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

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

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

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