Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.