It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
The younger brother hath the more wit.
Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A. J. Ayer.
I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty-I can do that if I want, too. Because you, Livingston, are not the boss of me and what kind of girl I become.
There is always a best way of doing everything.