“ If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age. Jacques Barzun
“ In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. Jacques Barzun
“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. Jacques Barzun
“ Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. Jacques Barzun
“ Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art. Jacques Barzun
“ Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams Jacques Barzun
“ Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice. Jacques Barzun
“ In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle. Jacques Barzun
“ Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. Jacques Barzun
“ Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhap… Jacques Barzun
“ The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Barzun
“ The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the words for the prose. Being adults, they had forgotten what every child understands, which is giving and… Jacques Barzun
“ What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may even pretend that it is only the later things we required -- no personal, individual, induplicable q… Jacques Barzun
“ Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. Jacques Barzun
“ Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are a form of injustice. Jacques Barzun
