“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to …” — Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.