It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence..

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and with eye: A point that can wound, An eye to look round, And at folly or vice….

The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases….

Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon against prejudice..

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works..

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years..

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.

Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No o….

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the dual role ….

The sole justification of teaching, of the school itself, is that the student comes out of it able to do something he could not do before. I say do a….

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions..

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression..

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the same time they degrade it ….

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation..

Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday….

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence..

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it..

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation..

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals..

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