They are their own monuments, as is this quietly thrilling sentence. - Stanley Fish

No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure.

Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot choose to distance ourselves from it. We can only choose to employ it in one way rather than another.

The idea — the core idea of humanism — is that the act of reading about great deeds will lead you to imitate them,..