There was no escape from the letter-writer who, a hundred or a hundred and twenty-five years ago, captured a coveted correspondent. It would have been as easy to shake off an octopus or a boa-constrictor.

A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out.

It is in his pleasure that a man really lives.