Loquacity and Veracity.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but none at all gives a writer freedom of expression and suppression, without that tiresome insistence on veracity which makes school books (especially arithmetic) such heavy reading.

It is well known that the more men know the less likely are they to make it known, because the more one knows the more one knows how little one knows. On the other hand, some men are so loaded with informative ammunition that they are practically missile-bound. But a mind which is fortunate enough to be practically empty is capable of anything. Which is why, when the editor said to me, “I want a misinformative article on the history and traditions of the “Iron Horse” in all its rumifications,” I simply said, “O.K., chief,” and slipped into “top.”