To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Advertising never sold a bad product twice.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.