Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

Humor is an excellent method of keeping a tight rein on unproductive displays of emotion.