"The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them."

"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to …"

"A good sentence is a key. It unlocks the mind of the reader."

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"With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of ins…"

"I recall an incident involving the late George Stigler at a conference in Spain in the 1980s. Hearing that …"

"The various critics who have assumed that Spinoza held a paramount position in Goethe's world view have muc…"