Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely

Only a very gifted mind could cope singly with all the problems which present themselves in the perfecting of a home.