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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How...more

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A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

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... endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided th...more

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And so too, in later years, when I began to write a book of my own, and the quality of some sentences seemed so inadequate that I could not make up my...more

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The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immateria...more

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A general is like a writer who wants to write a play, or a book, but whom the book itself, with the unexpected options that it reveals at one point, t...more