Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

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.

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

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.