One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.
I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.
The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
Virginity is the ideal of those who want to deflower.
Many talents preserve their precociousness right into old age.