Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Weaver, Richard

  • Nothing too Small for so Small a Creature

    I am petty; nothing petty is foreign to me. Or to my journal. Richard Weaver, "Life Without Prejudice" in Life Without Prejudice and Other Essays, Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965, p. 11: Upon one occasion when Boswell confessed to Johnson that he feared some things he was entering in his journal were too small, the latter…