The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and…
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the…
We who believe in patriotism once thought patriotism to be reasonable, and thought little more about it. Now we know…