America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

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

The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.

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

In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.