If it is surely the means to the highest end we know can any work be humble...
If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost that is...
To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit and...
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Nobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who...
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when...
I mean the beauty of being a writer is it's not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they'd say 'Oh she's so old ' and she's all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage and I hope to be able to keep doing it as long as I can get away with it yeah.