In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun
Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. – 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