The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Before using a fine word, make a place for it.