gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

What is life, but one long risk?

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

the most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.