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

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--

Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

there is undoubtedly something irritating about the favorites of fortune.