In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – 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
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. – Jacques Barzun
Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. – Jacques Barzun
Presently a light breeze sprang up, rolling the fog before it, and then dying away, leaving the lighthouse enshrouded…. The two great fog-bells of the lighthouse were therefore set agoing, and they rang out their slow deep-toned peal all that day and all that night… – R.M. Ballantyne, The Lighthouse: Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man an