History ... Isn't Simply What

Real Apprenticeship Is Ultimately Always To The Self.

I Read In Order To Write. I Read Out Of Obsession With Writing.

It Isn't The Instrument That Influences High-minded Or Low-minded; It's The Quality Of Mind Itself.

Much Of The Academy On The Humanities Side, English Departments In Particular, No Longer Write What Can Pass For Normal English.

An Essay Is A Thing Of The Imagination. If There Is Information In An Essay, It Is By-the-by, And If There Is An Opinion, One Need Not Trust It For The Long Run. A Genuine Essay Rarely Has An Educational, Polemical, Or Sociopolitical Use; It Is The Movement Of A Free Mind At Play.