I do strive to think well of my fellow man, but no amount of striving can give me confidence in the wisdom of a congressional vote.

There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

An appreciation of words is so rare that everybody naturally thinks he possesses it, and this universal sentiment results in the misuse of a material whose beauty enriches the loving student beyond the dreams of avarice.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times, because they had nobody to talk about.