When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.