One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written.

... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

...and wondering where he had read that clever liars give details, but that the cleverest do not.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.