Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. – 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
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. – Jacques Barzun
Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. – Jacques Barzun
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor. – Gary Saul Morson, The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture, 2011