The Night Is Far Spent Quotes

“the general fund of vocabulary, nay, of discourse itself, so calamitous that the failure of the banks in 1929 seems paltry by comparison; so that we find verbal paupers all around us, tattered, emaciated, and reduced to the stark penury of such verbal resources as “It’s like wow” or using “interface” or “office” as verbs.”
― Thomas Howard, The Night Is Far Spent: A Treasury of Thomas Howard

“My life for yours: it may mean three seconds of my time to redeem some thoughtless bit of self-indulgence on the part of someone else, or it may mean, or did mean, Golgotha, where My Life for Yours was supremely dramatized and entails our eternal joy.”
― Thomas Howard, The Night Is Far Spent: A Treasury of Thomas Howard