What Is The Virtue And Service Of

What Is The Virtue And Service Of A Book? Only To Help Me Live Less Gingerly And Shabbily.

When Abraham Lincoln Was Murdered The One Thing That Interested Matthew Arnold Was That The Assassin Shouted In Latin As He Lept On The Stage This Convinced Matthew There Was Still Hope For America.

Printer's Ink Has Been Running A Race Against Gunpowder These Many, Many Years. Ink Is Handicapped, In A Way, Because You Can Blow Up A Man With Gunpowder In Half A Second, While It May Take Twenty Years To Blow Him Up With A Book. But The Gunpowder Destroys Itself Along With Its Victim, While A Book Can Keep On Exploding For Centuries.

The Plural Of Spouse Is Spice.

A Human Being: An Ingenious Assembly Of Portable Plumbing.