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

I am seventy years old, a gray age weighted with uncompromising biblical allusions. It ought to have a gray outlook, but it hasn't, because a glint of dazzling sunshine is dancing merrily ahead of me.

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.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

No rural community, no suburban community, can ever possess the distinctive qualities that city dwellers have for centuries given to the world.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.