Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Mr. Gilbert had the earnest mania for self-improvement which has blighted the lives of so many young men.

The plural of spouse is spice.

The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will even ask him to autograph books.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.