Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of one's own absurdity. It is the ability to understand a joke, and that the joke is on oneself.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.