"I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference whether the treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge?"
The heroine in J.D. Salinger Franny and Zooey, quoted by Edward Tingley in First Things January 2002
"A wise man hears one word and understands two."
"a Yiddish proverb" quoted in BC Report December 28, 1998
"One science only will one genius fit/ So vast is art, so narrow human wit."
Alexander Pope, quoted in Marshall McLuhan The Gutenberg Galaxy
"'Preach! Write! Act! Do anything, save to lie down and die!'"
Hester Prynne in Nathanial Hawthorne The Scarlet Letter, quoted in William J. Bennett The Book of Virtues
"If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."
St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:10
“While some knowledge can be a good thing, sometimes too much is dangerous.”
Ontario Premier Mike Harris on why he filled key cabinet posts with people with limited relevant experience, quoted in The Write File Quarterly Issue #5, Summer 1995
"The main impulse of a true genius is not to look into himself, with endless digging into his conscience and subconscious - as Pasternak said, ‘conscience is like the headlights of a car; their light directed outward illuminates the way, directed inward leads to catastrophe’ - but to look out of himself. And to give. And if the main impulse of your existence is the desire to give, you cannot really be a nasty character. That’s what, probably, Pushkin had in mind when he exclaimed in his Mozart and Salieri: 'Genius and villainy are incompatible.'"
Chronicles magazine 1/88 [again I had regrettably not yet in 1988 acquired the habit of recording the author as well as publication when I recorded points I considered noteworthy]