Clutter is found in so many shapes and sizes. We can find it on our kitchen tables, under our beds, in our cars, and in our heads.
Clutter is a weight that has built on top of you so gradually, you don't even realize anymore that it is holding you down.
Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless jargon.
A Collection is dead when it is a collection to which nothing can be added and from which nothing can be removed!.
A Collection is always more than is necessary. It is a material concentrate that continually stimulates, that overexcites because it is already too much. The collector's need is precisely for excess, for surfeit, for profusion. It's too much and it's just enough for the collector.
An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.
The Institution is necessary to the nation — Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.
The Institution is what springs up where there is a lull of truth, just as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind.
An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley, Abolition, of Clarkson.
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