Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.