In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. – Jacques Barzun

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. – Jacques Barzun
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – Jacques Barzun
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper