no. 765

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself  and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to  which may be the true.”        

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 

no. 764

 “Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.”

~Oscar Wilde (recorded by Frank Harris)

I am amused that this was written without the use of italics. 

no. 763

 “Humanity… was nothing but the thin residue left when you subtracted the baffled chimp.”

From “The Long War” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter