When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only what I was thinking. Theyare loaded with opinion, moral thoughts, quick evaluations, youthful hopes and cares and sorrows. Occasionally, they manage to report something in exquisite honesty and accuracy. That is why I have refrained from burning them.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.