Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

Einstein is loved because he is gentle, respected because he is wise. Relativity being not for most of us, we elevate its author to a position somewhere between Edison, who gave us a tangible gleam, and God, who gave us the difficult dark and the hope of penetrating it.

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.