Anecdotal Evidence

'He Loved What He Was Doing'

'The Most Corrupt Writer Who Ever Lived'

'The Only Information I am Seriously Interested In'

'Nor a Single Thing That Belongs to Us'

'A Certain Self-Knowledge'

'I Think We Forget Too Easily'

'Quaffs, crams, and guttles'

'The Greeks Knew What They Were Talking About'

'Never to Gain an Advantage'

'To the Learning of Some Art or Science'

'The Unique Emotional Language of Our Age'

'But to Divert a Fierce Banditti'

'One Feels the Benefit Afterwards'

'Leaning Through Silence to a Dead Man’s Mind'

'An Old, Tried, and Valued Friend'

'It’s Mainly Because of Thanksgiving'

'A False Tooth, or a Rhinoplastic Nose'

"Year Chases Year, Decay Pursues Decay'

'Incipient Opportunity'

'Good for More Than One of Us That He Was Here'

'But O the Heavy Change, Now Thou Art Gone'

'He Will Return Deeply Dyed the True Tint'

'Anthologies of Miscellaneous Literary Passages'

'The Magic of Association'

'Willingness to Hear'

'Civilization Is Memory'

'Not Impressed by Bombast or Lofty Tone'

'So Much for the Philosophy of Old Age'

'And Probably Permanently'

'Professional Seers-Off'

'The Great Writers Are My Teachers'

'This Is Not What We Were Formerly Told'

'Fugitives From the Law of Averages'

'I Cannot Distil a Review From This New Book Yet'

'One Should Ask One’s Heart Three Questions'

'You Rcognize It Later from the Ache of Memory'

'The First Test of Greatness for a Book'

'Only Santayana Can Make Me Laugh Aloud'

'Slobber, Booger, Spit, and Blob--'

'A Small Number of Books That Are Something More'

'No Shade, No Shine, No Butterflies, No Bees'

'In Those Old Marshes Yet the Rifles Lie'

'I Hold It Towards You'

'And the Memory I Started At—'

'Level with Life'

'Simply Leaving Me Flat Cold'

'A Far More Agreeable Venture'

'No Impediment to Doing Whatever One Will'

'But I Had to Keep Going'

'When You Desperately Need Other People'

'Like This Little Patch of Yellow Wall'

'Very Little a Truly Moral Voice Can Say'

'It Was a Mild, Clammy Evening . . .'

'Trained Not to Argue But to Look'

'A Natural and Grave Distinction of Air'

'An Ironist of the Contemplative Life'

'Give Me a Land of Boughs in Leaf'

''This Saves Us From Being Oppressed'

'Having Actually Pleased Intelligent Children'

'Pride of Reading Is a Terrible Thing'

'Singularly Modest and Deferential'

'Dubious Enterprises Flourish Here'

'The Subtle Layerings of Spice and Tang'

'Child, Man and Old Crone'

'May His Books Swarm Again When Selected'

'The Ones I Never Had the Time to Read'

'The Right to Live As a Natural Right'

'One More Way in Which the Earth is Heating Up'

'He Often Said Just Nothing At All'

'Your Heart's Beat an Allusion'

'That Pleasing and Often Rewarding Genre'

'When I Feel Spiritually Bruised'

'A Joyousness That Brings Joy to This Room'

'Silence Where Hope Was'

'Born Under One Law, to Another Bound'

'Fluid As Mood and Ponderous As Grief'

'Cordial Old Man!'

'The Word Dear Alone Hangs on the Upper Verge'

'An Ambition to Copiousness and Eloquence'

'Sapient; Judging Rightly; Having Much Knowledge'

'That Sheer Spiritual Tackiness'

'Pleasant-Sounding, Flowing, Musical'

'Let the Mind Take Its Photograph'

'Though One Need Not Yet Quite Define Peru'

'Away Melancholy'

'The Occasions When We Are Set Free'

'We Must Have Within Us That Spirit of Quiet'

'With You in Shame or Fame They Dwell'

'He Never Reached the Equanimity of Age'

'A Careful Reading of the Present Volume'

'Ease Anguish With Your Voice'

'The Beautiful Light of Health'

'An Integral of Various Dissimilar Parts'

'Indulgence in Pure Corn'

'Tell Me About All You Read'