Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

To be ignorant and simple now-not to be able to meet the enemies on their own ground-would be to throw down our weapons and to betray our uneducated brethren who have, under God, no defense but us against the intellectual attacks of the heathen. Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

If things are real, they're there all the time.

That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning.