Monday, October 20, 2025
What Is Worth Knowing
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), "To Train a Writer," Collected Works, Vol. X: The Opinionator (New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1911), pp. 75-78 (at 76):
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If I caught him reading a newly published book, save by way of penance, it would go hard with him. Of our modern education he should have enough to read the ancients: Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and that lot—custodians of most of what is worth knowing.
