People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

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

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.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.