Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one

No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.