If a dependent clause, or an introductory phrase requiring to be set off by a comma, precedes the second independent clause, no comma is needed after the conjunction.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.
~ Lewis Mumford
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Thus it is that the superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of Heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences.
~ Confucius
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A leader is best when people barely know that he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worst when they despise him.
~ Lao Zi
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there is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one’s idea for thirty-five years.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
~ Gertrude Stein
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You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
~ William Faulkner
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I’m a pessimist about probabilities, I’m an optimist about possibilities.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived.
~ Confucius
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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